Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo
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Description: VeriSign's pay-for-play search, which appears for all unregistered .com and .net web sites, tries to set a cookie for a third party. Privacy advocates also worry that the registrar may be harvesting e-mail addresses. [SecurityFocus]
(September 18, 2003)
Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo Privacy advocates have joined the chorus of critics of Verisign's "SiteFinder," which on Monday
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| Page title: | Verisign's 'SiteFinder' finds privacy hullabaloo |
| Keywords: | verisign,privacy,sitefinder,overture,domain,company,search,addresses,information,internet,people,smith,mistyped,names,alink,brandon,address,software,concerns,advertising,services |
| Description: | Already reviled by network operators, Verisign's ambitious typosquatting project is raising hackles with privacy advocates too. |
| IP-address: | 143.127.139.110 |
WHOIS Info
| NS | Name Server: PDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET Name Server: PDNS2.ULTRADNS.NET Name Server: PDNS3.ULTRADNS.ORG Name Server: PDNS4.ULTRADNS.ORG Name Server: PDNS5.ULTRADNS.INFO Name Server: PDNS6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK |
| WHOIS | Status: clientTransferProhibited |
| Date | Creation Date: 30-jan-1999 Expiration Date: 30-jan-2015 |