Letter to ICANN regarding Verisign SiteFinder
Frist, you might want to read up on Verisign's SiteFinder and how it can addversely affect your use of the Internet:
Message from Security and Stability Advisory
Committee to ICANN Board
As a member of the public at large, a registered domain holder of several domains in and out of their namespace, and operator of a website hosting service and primary DNS for those domains, I am in disagreement with Verisign hijacking the COM and NET namespace for many reasons.
I acknowledge that Verisign has abstract right (as the zone authority over ALL namespace below COM. and NET.) to point anything in COM or NET where they please, but their action is causing concrete application problems across potentially the entire range of DNS-enabled applications:
1. Spam prevention: My ability to detect and block spammers relies partly on the ability to detect forged domain names. Verisign's action has crippled my software's ability to work correctly.
2. Email misrouting: my email services ability to accurately inform my users that their email was misaddressed, allowing them to take appropriate corrective action has been compromised. Furthermore, Verisign's action could allow them to fraudulently intercept email not actually intended for them.
There are many many more applications already experiencing relaibility and operation problems.
I believe this addresses the "confidence in stability and reliable operation" issue most directly. Confidence in applications ability to function correctly when DNS is being transparently redirected in a way the application did not expect is a security and reliability issue at its most elemental.
If any DNS lookup in .COM or .NET may return untrustworthy results,
DNS is unreliable.
Regardless of the technical problems being caused throughout a wide range of DNS-dependent applications, I personally feel it is a serious breach of the public interest to take a shared resource under their stewardship, nominally for the benefit of the Internet at large, and pervert it for their own financial gain.
Message from Security and Stability Advisory
Committee to ICANN Board
As a member of the public at large, a registered domain holder of several domains in and out of their namespace, and operator of a website hosting service and primary DNS for those domains, I am in disagreement with Verisign hijacking the COM and NET namespace for many reasons.
I acknowledge that Verisign has abstract right (as the zone authority over ALL namespace below COM. and NET.) to point anything in COM or NET where they please, but their action is causing concrete application problems across potentially the entire range of DNS-enabled applications:
1. Spam prevention: My ability to detect and block spammers relies partly on the ability to detect forged domain names. Verisign's action has crippled my software's ability to work correctly.
2. Email misrouting: my email services ability to accurately inform my users that their email was misaddressed, allowing them to take appropriate corrective action has been compromised. Furthermore, Verisign's action could allow them to fraudulently intercept email not actually intended for them.
There are many many more applications already experiencing relaibility and operation problems.
I believe this addresses the "confidence in stability and reliable operation" issue most directly. Confidence in applications ability to function correctly when DNS is being transparently redirected in a way the application did not expect is a security and reliability issue at its most elemental.
If any DNS lookup in .COM or .NET may return untrustworthy results,
DNS is unreliable.
Regardless of the technical problems being caused throughout a wide range of DNS-dependent applications, I personally feel it is a serious breach of the public interest to take a shared resource under their stewardship, nominally for the benefit of the Internet at large, and pervert it for their own financial gain.
