Clue-by-four Verisign.

[reddragdiva]

Over this. (From here, courtesy lusercop.)

From: Martin A. Brooks 
Reply-To: uknot@uk.com
To: uknot@uk.com
Subject: [uknot] Cluebyfour verisign HOWTO for the UK
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 11:32:55 +0100	

Call 0800-032-2101 and select option 2 for Support.

Explain to the engineer that you have typed in an non-existant domain name and
been directed to their sitefinder service.

Explain that you have read the "Terms of Use" and do not agree to abide by
them.

Explain that, as you don't agree to the ToU, you are explicitly forbidden from
using their service.

Ask them to exclude your IP block from those that will be given the sitefinder
IP rather than NXDOMAIN.

Give them your name, company (if appropriate) and a contact telephone number.

US and Canada: The contact page number is 888-642-9675. Apparently they will also refer you to 866-345-0330 (which isn't listed on that page), but you should of course check the number given on their official contact page and call that first. Those are both toll-free numbers, so please don't spend too much of their money. The postal address is VeriSign, Inc., Attention: Legal Department, 21355 Ridgetop Circle, Dulles, VA 20166, USA.

Update: Even ICANN - who have previously done a sterling party turn as Verisign's towel boys - are pissed off. Goodness me! And Paul Vixie has updated BIND accordingly (that being the DNS software most of the Internet runs on).

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[rataxis.livejournal.com]

Or just set a fax to call em every 10 seconds and play them the 'fuck you fuck you fuck you' song?

sorry, </slashdot>