Verisign sued over DNS crap
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on September 19, 2003 at 4:57:38 PM
If you have been surfing the net for the past week or so, you may have already encountered Verisign's new campaign of trying to sell you domain names if you get a DNS lookup failure. Now they're being sued.
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Not only is VeriSign making money off the redirected searches, but it is improperly interfering with competing services, including Netster's SmartBrowse and similar services run by Internet service providers like AOL Time Warner's America Online and Microsoft, Popular Enterprises said.