# Dan Gillmor on conference call with Verisign about Site Finder

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2003-10-07T19:04:52Z


Dan GillmorThe ultimate outrage: Rusty Lewis of VeriSign says this is a test for the Net, to see whether the infrastructure can be innovated. It's a threat: Let us do what we want or we won't invest in upgrading infrastructure, he implies.

In response to a question, he bascially indicates that ICANN doesn't have the power to keep VeriSign from doing what it's done. The company will have a dialogue with whoever wants to talk, but it plans to "reintroduce" Site Finder.

I think VeriSign has already won the key part of this war. It has persuaded reporters to call Site Finder a "service" instead of what it truly is, a misuse of its monopoly.This sounds really bad. How can a company that tries to sell trust act in such a blatantly untrustworthy way...





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