VeriSign to Suspend Online Search Service
From Associated Press
The Internet’s key traffic cop bowed to pressure and agreed to suspend a new online search service blamed for such side effects as disabling junk e-mail filters and networked printers.
The decision came hours after the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, the main oversight body for the Internet, threatened to sue VeriSign Inc. unless it shut its Site Finder service.
The company manages “.com” and “.net” addresses as well as the global network’s central directory computers.
ICANN had declared Site Finder in violation of VeriSign’s contracts for running the master address lists for “.com” and “.net,” two of the most popular domain name suffixes on the Internet.
