[vox] Verisign resolves unregistered .COM, .NET domains

[Rod Roark]

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 02:24 am, Bill Kendrick wrote:
...
> I didn't like the idea, but I also didn't realize the implications
> until I started reading the avalanche of comments on Slashdot...
> Mail clients not being able to 'do the right thing', broken spam filtering,
> insane hell for network admins trying to track down problems, etc.

There's already a patch to BIND 9 for reversing the damage:

  http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/delegation-only.html

I encourage all of you to contact your ISPs and ask them to
patch their nameservers.

-- Rod