INTERNET
Verisign done low hand on the addresss Internet
NOUVELOBS.COM | 19.09.03 | 14:36
The American giant is itself fitting all the addresss Internet in. com and. net not existing again. Disturbing for the respect of private life.
Since on Tuesdays September 16, to the least typing error in an address Internet in. com or. net, you will meet again certainly with Verisign. This American giant of the security certification electronic and that manages also the domain names in. com and. net did low hand on all the nonexistent addresss. Concretely, there is no longer any possibility to create an address in these domains. It will be necessary to repurchase it to Verisign. This decision will allow for him also which knowledges address the most often are typed, which syntax errors often are reproduced them and thus to sell to the strong price the addresss having more "successes". This is not nevertheless the alone financial advantage for the American corporation, since the connection flood on his site will allow for him to sell more pub.
Fuzzy on the private data
But this unilateral decision of Verisign, to which the icann (Internet corporate Body for Assigned Names and Numbers), the highest authority of the internet in regards to the granting of domain names, has not again reacts, has more disturbing consequences again. A mall of which addresses it addressee (always in. com or in. net) erroneous east will be directed towards the waiters of Verisign before to return you. Verisign does not specify this that it will be done collected the news. For his politics of treatment of the personal data is for the less fuzzy one: "no information concerning the ethnic origin, the religious or political opinions, health or sexual life" are not collected, on the other hand Verisign confesses to keep track of "the address IP of visitors, as well as of each of the visited orderlies, the type and the configuration of the used navigator and the domain name of which come you".
The community reacts
In the community Internet, that already carried little Verisign in his c?ur, because of its accointances with the complex American militaro-industriel, this is the emotion. A petition was posted on-line, and solutions to avoid going through the waiters of Verisign are posted on-line on different sites, and a software, Bind, allows bypasses the taxed measure unilaterally by Verisign.
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