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Historic Domain News Articles

Between July 2002 and November 2004, Whois.sc (Whois Source) published a series of news articles about the domain industry. These articles have been resurrected for your enjoyment.

Domain News Archive
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2002 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 14 9 27
2003 13 10 13 10 12 7 4 1 14 9 1 5
2004 12 17 3 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Register.com asks VeriSign to stop SiteFinder (Sept. 29, 2003)

To VeriSign's Chief Litigation Counsel from Register.com We represent Register.com, Inc., a leading domain registrar and a direct competitor of your subsidiary Network Solutions, Inc. We are writing this letter to prote...

Jay Westerdal on the Value of Trust (Sept. 28, 2003)

Dear Fellow Internet users, On September 15th VeriSign unexpectedly and with no warning started resolving every non-existent domain name ending in .COM or .NET to a pay-per-click search program called SiteFinder. VeriSign...

3rd Lawsuit against VeriSign's SiteFinder (Sept. 27, 2003)

VeriSign is facing a new class-action lawsuit over its controversial "SiteFinder" service, which redirects all misspelled or unassigned .com domain names to a search page managed by the domain name registrar. The servi...

Elliot Noss of Tucows in Response to SiteFinder (Sept. 26, 2003)

Elliot Noss the President of Tucows responds to SiteFinder in his daily blog. Stewardship...One who manages another's property, finances, or other affairs. I have been thinking a lot about stewardship lately in my...

PIR supports suspension of VeriSign DNS wildcard service (Sept. 23, 2003)

The Public Interest Registry (PIR), manager of the .ORG domain, today announced its opposition to VeriSign's deployment of a Domain Name System (DNS) wildcard service in a letter to Dr. Paul Twomey, President & CEO of the ...

Site finding system faces suspension (Sept. 22, 2003)

A controversial change to the way the net handles mistyped domain name queries could soon be suspended. Last week .com and .net registry Verisign replaced the error message that usually greets users looking for mistyped ...

GoDaddy sues Verisign over SiteFinder (Sept. 22, 2003)

Go Daddy Software, Inc. has filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Arizona against VeriSign Inc. seeking a temporary restraining order against VeriSign's new Site Finder service, a paid advertising page VeriSign has ...

VeriSign seeks advice on controversial new service (Sept. 22, 2003)

VeriSign Inc. said on Monday it would ask outside experts to review its controversial new service that captures mistaken Web searches after being hit with two lawsuits and opposition from the body that oversees Internet po...

VeriSign Sued Over Controversial Web Service (Sept. 18, 2003)

An Internet search company on Thursday filed a $100 million antitrust lawsuit against VeriSign Inc., accusing the Web address provider of hijacking misspelled and unassigned Web addresses with a service it launched this we...

All your Web typos belong to us - VeriSign (Sept. 16, 2003)

Network administrators are fuming about changes made by domain registrar Verisign to the DNS system yesterday amid concern that the alterations could make it difficult for mail servers to reject mail from invalid domains. ...

VeriSign hijacks web sites if mistyped (Sept. 16, 2003)

Mistype a Web address, and the generic error message that appears in your browser window offers few clues about how to reach the site you're seeking. VeriSign Inc., which directs traffic for much of the Internet, launch...

A wave of Web profits in guiding lost surfers (Sept. 16, 2003)

Type in an Internet query, and inadvertently leave off the dot in .com, .net or .org. Or try to find, say, Target's Web site, but mistakenly tap www.arget.com in the browser. Everybody makes such mistakes. In fact, so m...

Verisign broke the Internet (Sept. 16, 2003)

Criticism is quickly growing over VeriSign's surprise decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names, a move that has wreaked havoc on many e-mail utilities and antispam filters. On Monday, VeriS...

Man arrested for porn domain deceit (Sept. 4, 2003)

A man who allegedly created misleading domain names in order to entice children to pornographic Web sites has been arrested Federal law enforcement officers arrested a man on Wednesday for allegedly creating misleading...

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