VeriSign gets two-week warning

[bkelsay at comcast.net]

That made me laugh.   They ought to be prosecuted somehow for their business
practice of tricking people into transferring their domain name to verisign
on the pretense that it was about to expire.  Basically spamming people.
Maybe spamming should fall under racketeering laws.

Brian Kelsay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Kessler" <kessler2k at yahoo.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: VeriSign gets two-week warning

> Two weeks? This should have happened years ago...
>
> I think their spokesperson was referring to their
> business competency when he said: "It's like holding a
> few grains of sand in
> your hand and calling it a beach"
>
>
> --- zscoundrel <zscoundrel at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> > Got this from the CBS marketwatch newsletter.
> > Thought it might be of
> > interest based on a thread from a couple of weeks
> > ago.
> >
> >
> >
> > VeriSign gets two-week warning
> >
> > By Frank Barnako, CBS.MarketWatch.com
> > Last Update: 9:40 AM ET Sep 4, 2002
> >
> > RESTON, Va. (CBS.MW) -- The exclusive registrar for
> > the Internet's
> > dot-com domain has been given two weeks to clean up
> > its record keeping
> > or face losing the right to sell Web site addresses.
> >
> > The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
> > Numbers warned VeriSign
> > (VRSN ) because it "blatantly ignored" warnings to
> > fix inaccuracies in
> > the Whois database, which contains information as to
> > a domain's
> > ownership. Brian O'Shaughnessy, a VeriSign
> > spokesman, said the company
> > will fix the problems immediately but contested
> > whether ICANN's citation
> > of 17 inaccuracies over 18 months shows a pattern of
> > abuse, the
> > Washington Post reported. "It's like holding a few
> > grains of sand in
> > your hand and calling it a beach," he said.
> >
> >
> >
> > majordomo at kclug.org
> > Enter without the quotes in body of message
>
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