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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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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 TRANSFE...

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