VeriSign () is an important company which provides services of infrastructure for the telecommunication networks, in particular Internet. In particular, VeriSign manages the databases which determine the interpretation of Internet addresses of the fields .com and .net .

A discussed device

Principle of the device

The September 16th 2003, VeriSign implemented a device which redirected towards their site all the requests towards non-existent Internets fields in .com or .net. Under the pressure of the Icann, this device was suspended the October 3rd of the same year without VeriSign not calling into question the cogency from there.

Under the system set up by VeriSign, each time a user was mistaken in an address Internet finishing in .net or .com, it had good lucks arrive on Internet site of VeriSign instead of receiving an error message. VeriSign proposed there a form of to him research of site.

In the same way, when a user sent a Email to a non-existent field in .com or .net, it is also towards VeriSign that its computer tried to send the message. The device was however supposed to return an error message, so that the body of the message itself is not sent.

Consequences of this device

• There is an important traffic additional useless towards the site of VeriSign, which consumes Band-width and involves a waste of time.

• to be mistaken participle with enrichment in VeriSign thanks to the incomes generated by their page of search for sites.
• waiters smtp could not check any more if the field of the shipper really existed, the system of wildcard DNS making that there is a systematic answer to any interrogation DNS.

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