[It's still up right now. --Declan] --- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:34:10 -0700 To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> From: Malcolm Hoar <malch@private> Subject: Re: [Politech] Unexpectedly, VeriSign backs down on "SiteFinder" redirection At 07:44 PM 10/3/2003, you wrote: >VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, shut down its new SiteFinder service on Friday after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo controversial changes > >VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, shut down >its new SiteFinder service on Friday after the Internet Corporation >for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo >controversial changes. CNN and others have reported the same thing. Except that... it has *not* been shut down, at the time of writing. I have little doubt that it will be gone by sometime tomorrow but it irks me that so many journalists have the basic facts wrong. Fortunately, it's rare to see such errors promulgated on Politechbot. Thank you for taking so much care! But this one slipped through :-( -- |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | Malcolm Hoar "The more I practice, the luckier I get". | | malch@private Gary Player. | | http://www.malch.com/ Shpx gur PQN. | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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