Yes, VeriSign has made it to the ranks of being a SCAMMER! VeriSign's COM NET Registry (VCNR) manages relationships with more than 100 ICANN-accredited Registrars who submit over 100 million domain name transactions daily. They have a lot of power in this role and now they're abusing it. According to this article on news.com.com, VeriSign Redirects error pages, "On Monday, VeriSign began to redirect domain lookups for misspelled or nonexistent names to its own site, a process that has confused Internet e-mail utilities and drawn angry denunciations of the company's business practices from frustrated network administrators. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company enjoys a government-granted monopoly as the master database administrator for .com and .net." As opposed to a user going "Opps, made a typo, gotta fix that", they're now going to be subjected to Verisign's advertising. They're way out of line here! The search engine links to sites that appear to only be sponsored. In VeriSign's words, "Sponsored Results are links to web sites directly related to your search. These listings are sponsored by companies that pay to have a link to their site appear in the results for the specific search term you entered." I did not find any link on this so-called search engine, that would let me know how to get in this directory.
How can I trust an organization that sells secure certificates, when they are hijaacking the Internet? It's been a rather scummy way for some Internet Marketeer's to redirect traffic. They buy domains names that are common mispellings of high traffic sites. But at least they're buying the names, not using any monopolistic power to take advantage of Internet users.
What can we do? Don't buy from VeriSign. Need a secure certificate go to Thawte.com or some other 3rd party verification company.
How can I trust an organization that sells secure certificates, when they are hijaacking the Internet? It's been a rather scummy way for some Internet Marketeer's to redirect traffic. They buy domains names that are common mispellings of high traffic sites. But at least they're buying the names, not using any monopolistic power to take advantage of Internet users.
What can we do? Don't buy from VeriSign. Need a secure certificate go to Thawte.com or some other 3rd party verification company.
