Re: [squid-users] Verisign puts wildcard in .com and .net TLDs

Being a member of LACTLD (Latin American and the Caribean Top Level Domains)
I have
verified this information and forwarded this email to our list in order to
set a position on this issue.

I will let you know a soon as I get any response.

-Francisco Obispo
NIC-Venezuela

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@squid-cache.org>
To: "Sam Pointer" <sam.pointer@hpdsoftware.com>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Verisign puts wildcard in .com and .net TLDs

> Cool! the main registrar of .com/.net sets up a mission to destroy the
> trust in the manaegement of the Internet infrastructure. Really exciting
> times. I wonder what will happen tomorrow.
>
> I would recommend all serious users to contact their ISP and ask them to
> file a complaint to verisign on the ground that this bad business practice
> (apart from being unfair to all other registrars) breaks the Internet
> error recovery mechanisms in how the DNS system is supposed to find out
> that a site does not exists. This causes great griefs in
>
> * Fault searching
>
> * Error recovery in non-HTTP protocols, especially SMTP
>
> * SPAM filtering
>
> * Problem reporting by end-users to their support department
>
> * DNS resolution using domain search lists
>
> * and many other situations
>
> As someone else in the Slashdot thread said Internet is not only the web.
> Moreover not all persons who surf the web are looking for registering
> domain names.
>
> Adding a wildcard A or MX record in a root domain is not exacly a wise
> move by any means. In fact it is generally a bad move in any domain and
> should only be used in controlled subdomains of your own domain.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>

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Francisco J. Obispo
ccTLD VE - NIC-Venezuela - CNTI
http://www.nic.ve - http://www.cnti.ve
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Received on Tue Sep 16 2003 - 10:07:26 MDT