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The Deployment of VeriSign Site Finder and ISP Response
Posted by Paul Szynol on Monday, October 06 @ 15:10:10 EDT
Contributed by BenEdelman
Governance
BenEdelman writes "During the 2+ weeks for which Site Finder was operational, a number of ISPs took steps to disable it. For example, China blocked the traffic at its backbone, and Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom and Korea's DACOM also disabled the service. US ISPs seem to have been slower to act, in general -- but US ISP Adelphia disabled the service September 20-22 before re-enabling it on September 23. Details and additional analysis, including specific networks disabling Site Finder, are in
Technical Responses to Unilateral Internet Authority: The Deployment of VeriSign "Site Finder" and ISP Response.

If you have additional information about networks on which Site Finder was or was not accessible, please consider submitting your experience.

Our article responds directly to the empirical question raised in James Grimmelmann's VeriSign Hijacks DNS Typos . . . And Creates Binding Contracts? -- finding traffic to Site Finder's Terms of Use to be less than one five hundredth as large as traffic to ordinary Site Finder results, confirming that few users read the terms purportedly governing use of Site Finder.

Past coverage on LawMeme:
VeriSign Hijacks DNS Typos . . . And Creates Binding Contracts?
That Was Quick: VeriSign Sued over DNS Hijack

Jonthan Zittrain and Ben Edelman
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Harvard Law School "

 
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