Verisign Suspends Controversial Site Finder Service
VeriSign has suspended its controversial Site Finder service after receiving a formal demand from ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) late last week to suspend the service, which is itself responsible for awarding VeriSign the rights to manage major domain names. The company, which oversees the management of .com, .org and .net domain names, had been redirecting users that entered incorrect or unavailable domain names to the new service, provoking outrage over the knock-on effects, which include making it impossible for anti-spam software to identify non-existent sites. Also, some of the listings on the Site Finder service were paid for, sparking fury over VeriSign's exploitation of its unique position as manager of the world's most popular top-level domain names for profit.
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