this verisign wildcard silliness

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:30:32PM -0400, a clever sheep wrote:
> the thing that really slays me about this is that there's a privacy
> policy and a terms of use linked on the 'sitefinder' pages:
> 
> 14. AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND.
>   By using the service(s) provided by VeriSign under these Terms of Use,
>   you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by all terms
>   and conditions here in and documents incorporated by reference.
> 
> is this enforceable?  is typoing a domain name now equivalent to signing
> a contract?  if not, why is this even on there?  they've gone to great
> lengths to not provide any method of contacting them electronically,
> they only provide an address for VeriSign legal on the privacy policy.
> i wanted to let them know that i don't agree to their terms of service
> and i'd like them to stop appearing in my web browser.  ;)

Well, you could phone them and ask them to stop serving your IP block,
but since they run gtld-servers.net that would cut you off from half of
the Internet.

Ceri

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