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Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo
Deborah Radcliff, SecurityFocus 2003-09-19

Privacy advocates have joined the chorus of critics of Verisign's "SiteFinder," which on Monday began directing mistyped dot-com and dot-net e-mail and Web addresses to a search site operated by the company and Overture.com, a Pasadena, Calif.-based advertising company that brands itself as a search engine.

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Fighting SiteFinder 2003-09-21
bl0rf
Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-22
Anonymous (1 replies)
Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-22
Anonymous
Hi I sent this to versign... I hope to get an answer..

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From: myhotmailadress (at) hotmail (dot) com [email concealed]

Sent: den 22 september 2003 15:05

To: websitesales (at) verisign (dot) com [email concealed]; consultingsolutions (at) verisign (dot) com [email concealed]; dnssales (at) verisign (dot) com [email concealed]; premiersupport (at) networksolutions (dot) com [email concealed]; websitesupport (at) verisign (dot) com [email concealed]; abuse (at) verisign (dot) com [email concealed]; support (at) verisign (dot) com [email concealed]

Subject: Sitefinder - I do not accept the terms of use.

Hello,

I recently got forced by your nameservice to enter a site called "sitefinder.verisign.com" and there you have an "terms of use" and I do not accept those term.

So therefor I would not like to use your service, but since I´m beeing "pushed/forced" to enter your site whenever I enter a wrongly spelled dns-name I would like you to remove me from your service OR you could tell me how to do to remove myself from this service.

Please advise

Regards

Myname...

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Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-24
Hugo van der Kooij (2 replies)
Not their first sleazy tactic. 2003-09-29
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