A report says that VeriSign's redirection of nonexistent domain names to its own site violated accepted norms of conduct, and harmed businesses and individual Internet users. [CNET News.com] (July 13, 2004)

ICANN announcement that it has issued an ultimatum to VeriSign over the widespread harmful effects of the registrar's unilateral implementation of wildcards for .com and .net. (October 03, 2003)

The search page at VeriSign, which appears for all mistyped .com and .net sites, passes information to a marketing firm. A computer security researcher said that this could include personal information. [The Sydney Morning Herald] (September 30, 2003)

Longtime Internet litigator Ira Rothken has filed a class action suit against VeriSign over the registrar's redirection of mistyped .com and .net names to a search page it controls. [CNET News.com] (September 26, 2003)

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)

Reports that network admins are furious at Verisign for redirecting requests for nonexistent domains to an advertisement. [The Register] (September 16, 2003)

Thomas C. Greene writes: "Now Verisign (formerly Network Solutions) is taking heat for a practice which borders on registrar slamming." [The Register] (March 26, 2002)

Conclusion to a tale of poor service from Verisign. (March 02, 2001)