Eikes bah, Verisign. Netsol. Network Solutions. Bleh.
Ik denk dat zog.org een domein is dat nog gekocht is toen het nog internic was, in ieder geval toen er nog maar 184 andere mensen met de initialen MV een domein hadden geregistreerd–maar als ik nu ga kijken, dan staat daar doodleuk “Record created on 09-Oct-2002”. Pff homo’s.
Yesterday, Verisign (the company I’d like to see put to death) broke the Internet by redirecting all unregistered .COM and .NET addresses to a page on their site where they run a search-engine. For a lot of good technical reasons, this is a bad idea, and it makes a savage mockery of Verisign’s (unbelievably lucrative) monopoly on critical pieces of the Internet’s infrastructure.
Today, the makers of the BIND DNS software responded by announcing a patch that will interpret Verisign as damage and route around them.
However, the ISC is about to undercut the Site Finder service with a patch to its BIND software.
BIND runs on about 80 percent of the Internet’s domain name servers — the machines that translate human-readable Web addresses like www.wired.com into machine-readable Internet addresses used by the Internet’s vast network of computers.
The patch will be released by the end of Tuesday, said Paul Vixie, ISC’s president.