(Mis)Uses of Technology

(Mis)Uses of Technology

by Mike Masnick




Patch Already Being Created To Circumvent Verisign's Typosquatting

from the fix-the-internet-back-up dept

Well that was fast. For all the talk of how Verisign is breaking the internet, leave it to the techies to come up with a quick solution. The folks who developed BIND, the software for domain name directories, is frantically working on a patch that will allow ISPs to ignore Verisign's hijacking of typo domains.

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  1. Sep 17th, 2003 @ 1:08pm

    I thought this was about Verisign and advertising

    by MeV

    until I read the Wired article explaining that their entry breaks BIND's ability to detect a valid domain and verify if an email was possibly SPAM.

    Now if only the Network Solutions SPAM would dissappear from my IN box...

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

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