And Verisign is apparently going to cave ...

Reaction to VeriSign's New 36-Hour Deadline. ICANN today has made a formal demand stating: "Given the magnitude of the issues that have been raised, and their potential impact on the security and stability of the Internet, the DNS and the .com and .net top level domains, VeriSign must suspend the changes to the .com and .net top-level domains introduced on 15 September 2003 by 6:00 PM PDT on 4 October 2003. Failure to comply with this... [CircleID]
8:43:59 PM     comment []

Well, some interesting information here: it seems as though the current Verisign fiasco actually has a precedent! According to NetCraft, Verisign is not the first TLD to think of wild-carding domains. Since NetCraft is the publisher of the definative site survey for th 'Net, it was important for them to be able to filter out spurious results such as those introduced by wild-carding.

They even have a paper up on the topic, listing the IP's to which wild-cards for various TLD's resolve!

Interesting ....
8:41:07 AM     comment []