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VeriSign will not revive Site Finder despite patent

...relevant service for almost five years. In 2003, VeriSign tried out the Site Finder service, which sent web users who mistyped URLs to a VeriSign... Read more

16 May, 2008 by David Meyer

ICANN roundly condemns VeriSign's Site Finder

...addresses. In a report issued last Friday, ICANN claimed that VeriSign's Site Finder service was guilty of violating "fundamental architectural principles", and posed a... Read more

13 July, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

VeriSign's ploy brings flood of traffic

...to results released on Tuesday by ComScore Media Metrix. VeriSign's controversial Site Finder, which redirects users to its Web site when they mistype a... Read more

22 October, 2003 by Dawn Kawamoto

ICANN expresses 'disappointment' in VeriSign

...a contract to run. Last autumn, ICANN ordered VeriSign to halt its Site Finder service, which redirected nonexistent domain names to the company's Web... Read more

1 March, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

VeriSign sues to reinstate redirection

...which lists 43 pages of grievances, is the controversial and currently suspended Site Finder service, which redirected expired or nonexistent .com and .net domains to... Read more

27 February, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

VeriSign's redirection will resume

...in Washington, D.C., VeriSign said its own re-evaluation of its Site Finder redirection service found "no identified security or stability problems." When it... Read more

16 October, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

VeriSign's CEO hits back at critics

...suspension of the service. But the controversy attending the dispute over the Site Finder service revealed a deeper split between technologists who helped guide the... Read more

23 October, 2003 by Charles Cooper

Phishing shield makes money for ISPs

...tactic is similar to one used in an unpopular VeriSign service called Site Finder, which was pulled soon after its launch in 2003. Simplicita's... Read more

28 March, 2007 by Joris Evers

Cameroon registry typo-squats .com

...non-existent domain names with those extensions to a search service called Site Finder. That controversy resulted in ICANN, the body that oversees Internet protocols... Read more

8 August, 2006 by David Meyer

ICANN hands VeriSign new monopoly on .com

...arose out of a lawsuit filed by VeriSign against ICANN after the Site Finder flap in 2003, will be lucrative for both organizations. Based on... Read more

2 March, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

VeriSign suing ICANN again

...improved functionality and quality of VeriSign's services." Disputed VeriSign services include Site Finder, which redirected mistyped Web addresses to a VeriSign search page; a... Read more

1 September, 2004 by Paul Festa

ICANN asks court to reject VeriSign's case

...of the domain name system. One focus is VeriSign's now-suspended Site Finder service, which redirected expired or nonexistent .com and .net domains to... Read more

7 April, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

Registrar stumps up anti-VeriSign fund

...name registrar Go Daddy for months has criticised VeriSign's currently suspended "Site Finder" service, which seized control of nonexistent .com and .net domains. Now... Read more

3 March, 2004 by Declan McCullagh

Verisign wins Internet Villain award

...per day. Last October, VeriSign found itself mired in controversy over its Site Finder service, which redirects all misspelled or unassigned .com domain names to... Read more

20 February, 2004 by Matt Loney

Court rules in favour of ICANN

...and addresses, recently has been sparring with ICANN over VeriSign's controversial "Site Finder" service, which snared traffic to nonexistent Internet sites and forwarded it... Read more

17 November, 2003 by Jim Hu

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