Sure enough, Verisign has decided to 'suspend' it's 'useful' service. Mercury News - VeriSign to suspend Site Finder service

Some acts are so stupid you can outright predict that it is doomed to fail. This is yet another one of them. Verisign may have read the legal fine print and decided there's nothing that stops them from doing this. But just because you can do it doesn't mean you should.

And what's with the "we are trying to make the user's internet experience better" defense? Verisign is given the authority to maintain the registry and provide DNS services. Not to improve the user experience for people using HTTP protocol over web browsers. What about the other hundreds of protocols?

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