Re: [ga] Verisign to revive redirect service

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Andy Gardner wrote:

> > VeriSign will give a 30- to 60-day notice before resuming a
> > controversial and temporarily suspended feature that redirected
> > many .com and .net domains, company representatives said Wednesday.
> >
> Is there anything to stop the root server operators from just DELETING 
> the wildcard entry out of the zone files provided by Verisign?

There is much to stop the root server operators from doing that.  The 
reason is that the wildcard setting is in the .com zone, not in the root 
zone.

So the machines that are doing wildcarding are things like the 
?.gtld-servers.net.

(Did you see my blog entry where I pointed out that one of ICANN's TLD
server machines is doing *.<TLD> wildcarding for .museum.  I can imagine
Verisign's attorneys grinning from ear to ear in anticipation of telling a
court that ICANN is running its own TLD wildcard at the same time that
ICANN is demanding that Verisign shut down the .com wildcard.)

		--karl--