VeriSign to defend Site Finder before ICANN

By Steve Malone

Posted on 15 Oct 2003 at 10:18

Verisign, which last week was forced to withdraw its controversial Site Finder service, will today present its case to the ICANN Security and Stability Committee.

Representatives of Verisign will present technical data which, they say, will prove that the initiative did not compromise or destabilise the Internet.

Whilst the 'service' was in place, users who mistyped or entered non-existant .com or .net URLs were redirected to the Site Finder search engine. Critics complained that this initiative caused certain anti-spam packages and DNS lookup services to fail.