Site Finder

This service redirects non-existing domain-names, to a special page. For this it uses the wild-card capability of DNS. The introduction of this service lead to a huge controversy. It is claimed that Verisign misuses its monopoly on com and net addresses.

It seems that the SiteFinder service disables some anti-spam services, some error messages in local languages .

I am not sure whether this service is right or wrong. There is a legal issue on the terms and interpretation of their license. But administering a top-level domain stays a monopoly activity. It does however not seem a good idea to take advantage of each URL mistyping error. This service will undoubtedly be very “popular”. Every user on earth makes typos and will thus be sent to that page. Verisign will get interesting statistics out of that.