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brujo
Average Member
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 Posted - 04 October 2003 : 12:29:24
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| yep - thanks Doug.... just hope 6pm tonight it will get back to normal |
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
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Posted - 04 October 2003 : 17:07:14
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can't understand why the link from Doug didn't work though - seems to be the right URL.
Probably it's taking you to Verisign 
The link works for me, I dunno what's going on.
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Dave.
Senior Member
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 04 October 2003 : 20:11:31
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| Works OK now. Don't know why it didn't before - maybe the server was just down. |
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silent_frosty
Junior Member
USA
178 Posts |
Posted - 04 October 2003 : 22:00:44
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| Yay, no more verisign! Is there a way to change your searchpage? I used to get a MSN search, but now this Internet Optimizer page comes up...very annoying..popups... |
Life is a waste of time. Time is a waste of life. So get wasted all of the time and have the time of your life. |
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instantnet11
New Member
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - 05 October 2003 : 05:42:09
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Originally posted by Dave6625
Works OK now. Don't know why it didn't before - maybe the server was just down.
I just read in Sat's paper that Verisgin will be taking sitfinder site down. Yea! |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 06 October 2003 : 04:38:23
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Those of you who proudly showed/talked about how many times that little program hit the Site Finder pages might turn out to have played a part in helping VeriSign. According to Cnet VeriSign used this as an arguement why Site Finder is (or was) good: "VeriSign stated that Internet users had visited the page more than 40 million times in the last three weeks."
IMO this can also (and probably does) mean that lots of people make typos, and/or that a lot of people don't use search engines but rather just try entering domains to see if they'll get to the right site. Which is what I usually do before I do a google, and it can sometimes turn up quite nice sites... though mostly porn  But who says that those 40 million people wanted to go to Site Finder?
They suspended the Site Finder pages for now, but who knows what they'll do in the future, especially if the law suits against them turn out in their advantage
At least for now we'll have our trusty friend 404 back
P.S. I know the first part of this reply sounds accusing, but it's not meant like that. Sorry for that in advance in case you do get offended. |
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lofty
Junior Member
USA
158 Posts |
Posted - 07 October 2003 : 13:05:02
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Old news, I guess...
from Edupage:
VERISIGN SUSPENDS SITE FINDER
VeriSign has agreed to temporarily shut down its recently debuted Site Finder service at the insistence of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which sent a letter to VeriSign saying that the company risked penalties if it did not take down the service. The Site Finder application redirects users who have mistyped or misspelled domain names to a VeriSign Web page that includes paid advertising. VeriSign reportedly hoped to earn significant revenues from those ads, but the ICANN letter said this arrangement violated VeriSign's status as a neutral administrator of the .com and .net domains. ICANN had originally asked VeriSign to disable the service shortly after it appeared in mid-September. In addition to questions over neutrality for the domain administrator, complaints have surfaced about Site Finder's reported interference with spam filters and about whether the service lowered the Internet's resistance to attacks. A spokesman from VeriSign said the company would shut down the service while it explored its options.
New York Times, 3 October 2003 (registration req'd) http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/technology/04WEB.html
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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seven
Senior Member
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 11 January 2004 : 09:59:14
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Well they only need to screw up the domain registration database and the web of incompatibilty will be complete.
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Originally posted by Gremlin
Yet another reason not to like Verisign, seems they can't even get their own certs right !
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34801.html
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weeweeslap
Senior Member
USA
1077 Posts |
Posted - 11 January 2004 : 15:02:59
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Dave.
Senior Member
USA
1037 Posts |
Posted - 11 January 2004 : 17:20:56
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NAV users were worst affected. NAV Users saw their computers slow to a crawl and Microsoft office apps not starting properly because of the problem.
I wasn't effected, is that because my box is powerful (2.2Ghz AMD / 1GB DDR400 RAM)? |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 12 January 2004 : 01:23:38
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| Not all users of NAV were effected, system specs wouldn't have mattered too much anyway based on my understanding of the issue. |
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