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VeriSign - Controversies | | VeriSign - Controversies: Encyclopedia II - VeriSign - Controversies | | In recent years, VeriSign has faced some contentious issues with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the quasi-governmental body that oversees Internet protocols. In September 2003, VeriSign introduced a service called Site Finder, which redirected web browsers to a search service when users attempted to go to nonexistent .com or .net domain names. ICANN asserted that VeriSign had overstepped the terms of its contract with the Dept. of Commerce, which in essence grants VeriSign the right to operate the DNS for .com a ...
See also:VeriSign, VeriSign - History, VeriSign - Divisions, VeriSign - Controversies, VeriSign - Milestones | | | VeriSign, VeriSign - Controversies, VeriSign - Divisions, VeriSign - History, VeriSign - Milestones, Cryptography, gTLD, Local number portability, SSL, Transport Layer Security, VoIP | | |
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VeriSign - Controversies
In recent years, VeriSign has faced some contentious issues with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the quasi-governmental body that oversees Internet protocols. In September 2003, VeriSign introduced a service called Site Finder, which redirected web browsers to a search service when users attempted to go to nonexistent .com or .net domain names. ICANN asserted that VeriSign had overstepped the terms of its contract with the Dept. of Commerce, which in essence grants VeriSign the right to operate the DNS for .com and .net, and VeriSign shut down the service. Subsequently, VeriSign filed a lawsuit against ICANN in February 2004, seeking to gain clarity over what services it could offer in the context of ICANN's sometimes opaque governing process. The claim was moved from federal to California state court in August 2004 and is still pending. More information about the legal proceedings is available here.
In other negotiations with ICANN, VeriSign gave up operation of the .org top-level domain in 2003 in return for continued rights over .com, the largest domain with more than 34 million registered domain names. .org is now run by a partnership between the non-profit Internet Society (ISOC) and the Irish for-profit company Afilias, which also runs the .info domain. In mid-2005, the current contract for the operation of .net expires and numerous companies, including VeriSign, are bidding for control of it. VeriSign's bid is backed by numerous IT and telecom heavyweights including Microsoft, IBM, Sun Microsystems, MCI and others, which all assert that VeriSign has a perfect record operating .net which should be extended given the critical importance of .net as the domain that underlies numerous "backbone" network services. More information on the .net bidding process is available here.
Other related archives.com, .info, .net, 1995, 1998, 30 January, Afilias, As of 2005, Cryptography, DNS, Dept. of Commerce, EPCGlobal, ICANN, Initial Public Offering, Internet, Local number portability, Mountain View, California, NASDAQ, Network Solutions, RFID, RSA Security, SS7, SSL, Site Finder, Thawte, Transport Layer Security, VoIP, certificate authority, digital certificate, digital certificates, encryption, firewalls, gTLD, local number portability, phishing, root nameservers, top-level domains
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