# Verisign modifies the infrastructure of the Net to point back to themselves

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2003-09-17T04:01:16Z


dejah420@MetaFilterVerisign modifies the infrastructure of the net to point back to themselves. Verisign has rigged all .com and .net mistyped domains to reroute to their branded search page. This makes them effectively the biggest cybersquatter on the net, and will make it impossible for most spam filters at the network level to operate as well as seriously complicating the lives of network administrators everywhere.
posted by dejah420 at 8:07 PM PSTI wonder if someone at Verisign thought this was a clever hack. It's stupid stuff like this that makes it very clear to everyone that Verisign is in a position to abuse their power.





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