-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- (C) 2003 Hugh Lilly mail: h.lilly(a)gmx.net blog: http://hugh.orcon.net.nz Registered Linux User # 295486, register @ http://counter.li.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/auF89hi2EvY06qgRAmGmAKCTLqkXIJag46oQLDq1od0PFIHXqQCglYeI svtZjEX42+BJbhPx1/yoiSc= =P+4f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:24:27PM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
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.
You never can trust those media-types to get it right these days eh? :-) Nathan Ward
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