Public Interest Registry supports suspension of VeriSign DNS wildcard service; Such efforts to alter the TLD DNS system adversely affect the Internet infrastructure.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 September 2003-Public Interest Registry: Public Interest Registry supports suspension of VeriSign DNS wildcard service; Such efforts to alter the TLD DNS system adversely affect the Internet infrastructure(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09232003 Reston, VA - The Public Interest Registry (PIR), manager of the .ORG domain, today announced its opposition to VeriSign's deployment of a Domain Name System (DNS) wildcard service in a letter to Dr.

Paul Twomey, President & CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The VeriSign wildcard redirects traffic that would otherwise have resulted in a "no domain" response to a VeriSign-operated website with search results and links to paid advertisements. In the...