{"id":349,"date":"2003-09-18T02:14:41","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T06:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/09\/18\/verisign-captures-20-million-typos\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T14:50:24","slug":"verisign-captures-20-million-typos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/09\/18\/verisign-captures-20-million-typos\/","title":{"rendered":"Verisign captures 20 million typos:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a478'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday September 15 2003, a change to .com\/.net behavior was announced by Verisign. Every mistyped domain name, one that had not been registered, would be redirected to a <a href=\"http:\/\/sitefinder.verisign.com\">sitefinder<\/a> by adding wildcard DNS records to all .com and .net domains. VeriSign inturn gets revenues from search engine partners whose technology powers Site Finder. The results for my <a href=\"http:\/\/sitefinder.verisign.com\/spc?sb=viswanath+gondi&amp;searchboxtype=1&amp;op=landing\">name on Sitefinder <\/a>matched only with <a href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.asp?RS=CHECKED&amp;FORM=MSNH&amp;v=1&amp;q=viswanath+gondi\">those on MSN &amp; Hotbot &amp; Overture<\/a>. So, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inktomi.com\/customers\/index.html\">partner of Inktomi <\/a>brought 20 million new clicks\/day generated by typos from Verisign. The Internet Software Consortium, the nonprofit organization that develops BIND, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A19860-2003Sep16.html\">writing a patch<\/a> for Internet service providers and others who want to block customers from a new Site Finder service from VeriSign Inc.<br \/>\nThe changes are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/6\/32872.html\">expected to cause more spam <\/a>to get through spam filters and lots of other problems. This move also gives verisign lots of new data. As a user I would like to go to the search engine I&#8217;m familiar with if I mistype someting, not the search engine verisign likes. The bad thing about this change is, it takes away control from the client the user interacts with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday September 15 2003, a change to .com\/.net behavior was announced by Verisign. Every mistyped domain name, one that had not been registered, would be redirected to a sitefinder by adding wildcard DNS records to all .com and .net domains. VeriSign inturn gets revenues from search engine partners whose technology powers Site Finder. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}