Re: [nznog] VeriSign Sued

Hugh Lilly wrote:

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VeriSign Sued Over Controversial Web Service Thu September 18, 2003 09:13 PM ET

By Elinor Mills Abreu

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An Internet search company on Thursday filed a $100 million antitrust lawsuit against VeriSign Inc., accusing the Web address provider of hijacking misspelled and unassigned Web addresses with a service it launched this week.

http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=3471297

"Typically, Internet users are shown a generic "404 -- cannot be found" page when a Web address does not exist. That probably comes from the Great InterWeb Server in the Sky. -- Juha