Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo

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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Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

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Coldman

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-19
Anonymous

Who's Omniture and what's all this stuff? 2003-09-19
Anonymous

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

a way to make VS change their minds 2003-09-22
L (1 replies)

a way to make VS change their minds - maybe 2003-09-25
Roger

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Anonymous (1 replies)

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Verisign's 'SiteFinder' Complaints 2003-09-23
Anonymous

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-23
Anonymous

Questions about Verisign's 'SiteFinder' Terms of Use. 2003-09-23
Michael Strom

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Hugo van der Kooij (2 replies)

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-25
Anonymous

Not their first sleazy tactic. 2003-09-29
Anonymous

Oh I can do better than that. I had several names registered at GoDaddy, and received [paper spam] "Renewal" forms from Verisign. Pretty interesting, considering they weren't registered with Verisign.

Read the fine print, and yup, they were trying to slam me. The "Renewal" form was a TRANSFER form that barely made any mention of this. It also made no mention that their rates were and still are considerably higher than GoDaddy's for the same commodity service.

I believe GoDaddy (and possibly other registrars) sued/are suing them over it.

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THEIFS stole my money and broke my internet NOW! 2003-09-27
Anonymous

Verisign is Spam!! You are not able to not use Sitefinder!! 2003-09-30
Jimmy

Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-30
Jim