Verisign

Well, it has been confirmed

October 6, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Well, it has been confirmed

that VeriSign has purchased weblogs.com. And now that it’s not just rumour anymore, it’s appropriate to comment.

What a bloody nightmare. VeriSign haven’t met a service they couldn’t screw up, a trust they couldn’t break, a marginally ethical lock-in they didn’t do everything in their power to try to gain over their own customers. I can’t imagine a worse option. Hope Dave’s happy with his money though – whatever your opinion of the guy, he has provided a fantastic service that was absolutely critical to the development of the world of blogs.

Update: Paidcontent.org has the details. There’s more all over the web. People seem a great deal more optimistic about VeriSign than I am – I guess that many lucky people have avoided being VeriSign customers.

Kottke is reporting

October 6, 2005 by Michael Boyle

Kottke is reporting

that he’s heard from multiple sources that Weblogs.com has been sold to Verisign. Stranger things have happened I suppose.

On Friday, ICANN

October 6, 2003 by Michael Boyle

On Friday, ICANN

formally asked Verisign to cease the deployment of its Sitefinder “service” in a Letter from Paul Twomey to Russell Lewis. The former is the president and CEO of ICANN, the latter is the EVP and GM of Verisign Naming Services. As far as I can tell they have not yet complied with the request from ICANN.

As if we didn’t have enough

September 17, 2003 by Michael Boyle

As if we didn’t have enough

proof that they’re evil: VeriSign redirects error pages from News.com.

I fully support

July 5, 2002 by Michael Boyle

I fully support

any effort to remove as much responsibility for domain registrations from Verisign as possible, so the “.org is a public trust” is very interesting to me. What I can’t figure out though, as an ORG owner, is how it might affect me personally. Will I be able to keep my domain under this proposal? Or is it the sunshine and popsicles it seems to be according to the sites I’ve seen who support this plan.