Boycott Verisign Products ?

[Whois-Search]

With Verisign trying to push out WLS and SiteFinder

Why don't we produce a "Verisign Free Site" Logo like this one :

http://www.bennoart.com/stopvs.jpg

And get everyone to put it on their sites.

Then get a domain like StopVerisign.org and have a site explaining the campaign and which products to boycott.

What is the Legal side of doing this to the person that hosts it ?

 

[Mr Webname]

Are you talking "we" as in DNF or "we" as in each one with a website?

 

[Whois-Search]

Everyone - "we" as in each one with a website

 

[.com.net.org]

have you tried petition online ?

 

[Whois-Search]

well I have a put a logo on my site and linked to George's petition

 

[Nexus]

I think spoofing helps put their name out there personally. I don't think their brand needs more energy put into it in the form of the "there's no such thing as bad publicity" notion. Mentioning them by name and frequency needs to be a surgical operation it seems, filled with a lot of intentionality. Making and popularizing a logo that spoofs them probably isn't the best way to go.

IMO, better to promote popular alternatives with little logos.

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If anything, if you could be conscious to the lip service, so that its not about outlining Verisign's services and just saying "no", but outlining the industries they effect, underplaying their offerings, and immediately promoting the services of those businesses most likely to succeed in the areas Verisign currently dominates. It's a touchy game to be sure.

~ Nexus

 

[Whois-Search]

Yes but not many people know what SiteFinder is or what it means - they are not given a chance to complain

The quicker they find out the quicker more people will complain to ICANN and stop it

 

[RON2]

Boycott Verisign? I can support that.

What is the requisite to qualify as a Verisign Free Site?

How about we change our .com/.net domains to .us and .org names in protest? They we would be even moreso Verisign-Free.



:evil:

 

[Whois-Search]

Well I just put a logo on the front of my site and linked to George's petition

 

[GiantDomains]

Originally posted by -RJ-


What is the requisite to qualify as a Verisign Free Site?

How about we change our .com/.net domains to .us and .org names in protest? They we would be even moreso Verisign-Free.



:evil:

:laugh: Good one -RJ- ... some people just don't get it k:

 

[Whois-Search]

As I said in another thread you can not do anything about the .com and .net registry

But you can boycott all the other products

And if your not even going to try then wait till your clicking their pay per click

 

[GiantDomains]

Boycott is a strong word. When you Boycott a company, you are boycotting the whole company, not just a product. If you want to be selective, it is not boycott, it is a consumer complaint.

ie: If you were against fur trading, and you found out that Ford Motors had bear-skin floor mats in their SUV's, you would boycott (and not drive) Ford, not the floor mats!

So if this is a boycott against Verisign, you are boycotting the .com, .net registry, so you should get rid off all of your domains that end in .com and .net.

 

[Whois-Search]

Yes but you can not do anything about that because they are abusing their power. And Enom pay verisign not me.

 

[DotLeader]

i have verislime.com and a logo i made

 

[GiantDomains]

George's petition (from what I read) is different, he is not boycotting their products, he is petitioning against DNS violations.

 

[Whois-Search]

Yes but hes going to email them all and tell them to do so

 

[GiantDomains]

Originally posted by Whois-Search
Yes but hes going to email them all and tell them to do so

I doubt he is going to tell them to stop registering .com and .net ... that would be boycotting verisign products. Like I said, George has a petition, not a boycott. I think you are misusing the word boycott.

 

[Nexus]

I agree with GiantDomains. If you were TRULY boycotting Verisign, you would want to do so from a dot-INFO website (or dot-ORG). It's not very difficult.

I'm not sure anyone wants to inconvenience themselves just to make a largely symbolic statement that doesn't change/effect anything. If you want to boycott, people need to take a deep breath and really do it. The Montgomery bus boycott (a milestone in the American civil rights movement) wasn't exactly an easy thing to pull off, but it was seen as necessary. If its not a serious attempt to boycott, maybe it should be worded as a "protest" or something.

George's protest seems purposed at something far more impactful.

~ Nexus

 

[Steen]

http://www.dotleader.com/verislime.gif is dotleaders interesting pic

Isnt there already enough sites that have that dam sound "verisign is a bad company" like www.sars.com links.

I have hit those VS bad company pages so many times over the ages..

 

[Whois-Search]

Ok

Well......... the fact is :

www.fjkfkjsdhfkjshdfksdhfsdhkf.com resolves


However BIND (the most used DNS server, we use it on our server) have issued a patch which lets you block the verisign thing