Hehe
@ssa.gov | Bad ISPs
Using this would not be "Protocol Agnostic". |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | Sue them all
Maybe that will stop the practice....  |
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En Enfer
This account has been compromised
join:2003-07-25
Montreal, QC
 ·VIF Internet
| Only a matter of days....
... before someone at VeriSign come up and say "hey, now we have the patent, let's put back the Sitefinder online!"
Still, other common protocols (like TCP/IP, DNS, etc.) were patented first, and then used. It's not because VeriSign patented DNS hostage that it consequently means they created it, since it was already been used long ago.
Time to create a new Internet?
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
1 edit |  ISP using redirection
I really don't have a problem with an ISP performing DNS redirection, but Verisign has absolutely no business doing it. There's no way to opt out of Verisign's redirection. |
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Hehe
@ssa.gov
| said by Matt  :I really don't have a problem with an ISP performing DNS redirection, but Verisign has absolutely no business doing it. There's no way to opt out of Verisign's redirection. DNS redirection is forged/false info. I think this is bad. What next, redirect google.com to mysite.com? |
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T1 Rocky
join:2002-11-15
Dallas, TX | What are the repercussions of this?
When does it go into affect and what are the repercussions? |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs: | verislime
everything this company does just makes me sick. |
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factchecker
@cox.net
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Re: Only a matter of days....
said by En Enfer :Still, other common protocols (like TCP/IP, DNS, etc.) were patented first, and then used. TCP/IP and DNS are NOT patented... They are open standards. |
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NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
Premium
join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX | Custom 404's Prior Art?
The DNS system is a RFC so how can any company patent anything that the system can be made to do? Plus would this cover custom 404 pages.
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| reply to T1 Rocky
Re: What are the repercussions of this?
said by T1 Rocky :When does it go into affect and what are the repercussions? The effect is simple. If I have an application that needs to know if a given FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) is valid, this false reply will make ALL FQDNs look valid not just those that ARE valid. Such an application is SMTP (Mail) Servers which check Email Addresses to see if the Domain Name in the address exists. Use of this false existence reply would cripple the SMTP checks. |
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chickentime
@comcast.net
| I think it would be fun...
I think it would be fun if they try to sue OpenDNS, who's been doing this since what - 2004?
I also think it would be fun if OpenDNS gets awarded the patent instead and/or makes Verisign pay rediculous license fees such that they can't afford to keep doing this nonsense. |
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