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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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Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo 2003-09-24
Hugo van der Kooij
As owner of a domain name formerly registered by a Veri$ign company I was surprised to find paper spam arriving at my door with the exact typo in the address I used in their database.

This typo was in the part one could not gather through the WHOIS interface and my conclusion was this Veri$ign co...

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