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Article: VeriSign taking heat over problems with Site Finder.(Brief Article)
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- PR Week (US)
- Article date:
- October 6, 2003
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA: VeriSign has raised the ire of the internet community with its Site Finder service. The service redirects web users if they type in an incorrect web address - ending in .com or .biz - to a VeriSign site that helps them find the site they are looking for.
But the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees internet domain names, has asked VeriSign to suspend the service in response to complaints that VeriSign is hijacking internet users. Site Finder has apparently caused problems with anti-spam utilities, and has angered network administrators. VeriSign runs the registry for .com and .net domains.
The uproar has ...