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VeriSign slammed for .com spam aid
September 17 2003
On Monday, VeriSign began to redirect domain lookups for misspelled or nonexistent names to its own site, a process that has confused internet email utilities and drawn angry denunciations of the company's business practices from frustrated network administrators. The company enjoys a government-granted monopoly as the master database administrator for .com and .net.
The operator of the Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS), Matthew Sullivan, told silicon.com's sister site ZDNet Australia the company's actions have thrown a huge spanner in the works. "All of the header checks that you normally do ... suddenly don't work," he said. "So of course all of these forged email addresses that spammers are using are getting through."
Spam software can no longer check the validity of a domain name to make sure it's not forged, Sullivan says. "I don't think they should have done it at all ... there is absolutely no reason at all that they should have done it," he said. "The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has already said that it should be withdrawn."
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