this verisign wildcard silliness

[Josef Grosch]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> a clever sheep wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 07:32:24PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> >
> >>Well, you could phone them and ask them to stop serving your IP block,
> >>but since they run gtld-servers.net that would cut you off from half of
> >>the Internet.
> >
> >clearly that's not an option.
> >
> >i'm just curious how they'd respond to irate-end-user-with-lawyer
> >calling and saying that they never agreed to these terms or this privacy
> >policy and they want it to go away.  it would be pretty technically
> >challenging for verisign if they had to do that.
> 
> It makes me wish I had money lying around to hire a lawyer just to
> piss off Verisign.
> 
> I already have a MAJOR bone to pick with Verisign (have for several
> years) and this infuriates me even more.  If I can find an avenue
> to complain, I will.
> 
> Is there some organization that is over Verisign that I could file
> a complaint with?


You could try complaining to ICANN but I don't think you and I combined
have enough money to warrant notice. If you are a big, rich company ICANN
will let you do anything you want. If not, all you will get is a "Bugger
off". Verisign is my proof of this. Notice that through this whole thing we
have not heard a peep out of ICANN. Vixie has noticed, all the screaming
fingers on Slashdot have noticed. Basicly every geek I know or know of has
been going on about this. ICANN is completely silent. So much for
independent oversight.

What was the name of the guy who, a few years ago, tried to start his own
tld? He is starting to look less like a crackpot.


Josef

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