17 Sep
2003
17 Sep
'03
3:06 a.m.
From: "Juha Saarinen"
Verisign owns .com and .net?
Don't forget that up until now Microsoft owned the World Wide Web. Type this into IE www.dfghjkl.co.nz, rather than getting a DNS error you end up at Xtra MSN, thus Microsoft have built logic into IE to redirect non existant domain errors to a Microsoft MSN affiliate. So you could say that Verisign is just playing the same game that Microsoft has been playing. I suspect that Microsoft and their affiliates will be a bit pissed that their MSN Web servers have suddenly gone quiet, IE no longer redirects bad .com URLs, they hit Verisigns servers instead. A critical service pack for IE could be pending and Microsoft may be eyeing their piggy bank :) Cheers BG.