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VeriSign sticks with redirect service
September 18, 2003
VeriSign said Thursday that it would respond to technical complaints over its recent move to redirect Internet users who enter nonexistent or misspelled domain names to its Web site, but it said it would not pull the plug on the service.
Criticism has been growing over the Mountain View, Calif.-based company's surprise decision to take control of unassigned .com and .net domain names, which has confused antispam utilities and drawn angry denunciations of the company's business practices from frustrated network administrators.
"There is a lot of fiction about the actual technology and the service," VeriSign spokesman Brian O'Shaughnessy said. "What we are doing is trying to determine fact and fiction and we're doing so by reaching out to the technology community and helping them to understand exactly what is fact and fiction."
VeriSign would not disclose what changes it might make to address technical complaints about its Site Finder service.
O'Shaughnessy said the service has been embraced by end users. "We've seen nothing but very positive results from the Internet community," he said. "Usage is extraordinary. Both individual users and enterprises are giving very positive feedback."
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