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RightHandMan 09-24-2003 04:31 PM

GoDaddy Sues VeriSign
 
Recieved the Following in an e-mail:


Dear Valued Go Daddy Customer,

Have you ever needed to ask for directions while you were driving?
Let's say you stopped to ask a trusted authority, like a police officer.

You'd expect that officer to be honest, right? Wouldn't you expect him
or her to provide you a safe, direct route to where you needed to go? I
sure would.

But what if that officer instead misdirected you to a shopping mall? A
shopping mall, it turns out, that actually paid the officer for every
sale that resulted?

That would be an abuse of the police officer's authority. It would be
capitalizing on your misfortune.

We believe that's what VeriSign is doing with its "Site Finder"
marketing scheme. We believe that it is once again abusing the power to
oversee all .com and .net domains it was granted by the U.S. government.

Go Daddy is now suing in federal court to stop them.

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HERE'S HOW VERISIGN'S SCHEME CAN AFFECT YOU:
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+ It will MISDIRECT YOU FROM YOUR INTENDED DESTINATION and even
MISLEAD YOU ABOUT ITS STATUS.
If you type any .com or .net address into your browser that isn't
already registered, VeriSign hijacks you -- and sends you to an advertising
page that they own. This can occur even when you type in a site that is
registered, but is not displaying temporarily. Used to be, if you made
a mistake in typing an address -- which is the usual reason for not
finding a site -- you would see either a "404" error page, or a help page
that your browser would generate. Now though, VeriSign has hijacked
this entire process and puts up a paid-advertising page, the so-called
Site Finder.

+ It will COST YOU MONEY.
Advertisers pay VeriSign to position links to their services that look
similar to the misspelled address. And that means you may well find
your way to a competitor, rather than to your intended destination. Simply
navigating on the Internet will be more frustrating and more expensive
for consumers. Companies will be forced to purchase every imaginable
misspelling of their names to prevent their customers from being hijacked
by Site Finder, and the cost will be passed on to you. To VeriSign, of
course, these forced domain registrations just mean more revenue.

+ It will mean MORE SPAM HEADED FOR YOUR INBOX.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) across the globe have committed
valuable time and resources to developing systems that prevent spam from
reaching your mailbox. One of the more successful methods checks to see
whether the domain name of the inbound email resolves to an actual Web
site. If it doesn't, that means the domain is fake, so your ISP doesn't
let it through. Now, though, spammers can use any phony domains they
want, because all fake domains will "resolve" to the Site Finder page! Go
Daddy's spam filter, Spam Xploder(TM), will not be affected because it
uses Bayesian filtering technology, instead of relying on the DNS
servers, to determine if email is spam or not.

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We at Go Daddy feel that Site Finder amounts to an abuse; that VeriSign
is misusing its registry position to gain unfair advantage over the
entire Internet community. And as we did in 2002, when we sued VeriSign
over its renewal scam, we're determined to stop it.

We're asking a Federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction that
will halt this. If you feel, as we do, that VeriSign is once again
inappropriately capitalizing on its position of authority, we urge you to
email VeriSign ([email protected]) and ICANN ([email protected]) and
let them know.

Thank you for your attention and support on this matter. You can review
our press release and legal complaint here
https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/press...sign_suit.asp.

As always, thanks for being a Go Daddy customer.

Sincerely,
Bob Parsons
President
GoDaddy.com

GrimShawn 09-24-2003 04:31 PM

whoa crazy shit. Everyone is suing everyone

KaLi 09-24-2003 04:49 PM

hope they win :thumbsup

TheJimmy 09-24-2003 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by GrimShawn
whoa crazy shit. Everyone is suing everyone

yes they are, but in this case I'd have to agree, the concept seems to have a lil merit...


tommorow I begin playing on freeways in hopes of scoring my meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelionnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn dollah lawsuit ;)

:thumbsup :thumbsup

Fabien 09-24-2003 06:59 PM

Go Daddy go ....go.......



Go Daddy go ....go.......go


Daddy be good:GFYBand

Wilbo 09-24-2003 07:09 PM

I hope Godaddy wins.......why should Verisign get $$ from people looking for MY sites?

Carlos 09-24-2003 07:28 PM

Ah, I already thought that I have spyware from VeriSign, but this is even worse than spyware...


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