Verisign Caves On Sitefinder

[Ari Goldberger]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/10/03/verisign.icann.reut/index.html

 

[actnow]

One interesting piece of information out of that article was the statement of 40 million visitors within the two week period.

That amounts to 1 billion hits a year. I assume Verisign could have made a lot of money by steering that traffic to well paying websites.

 

[Steen]

I dont see the big probelm here.

I thought it was a good idea.

 

[PCplay]

I just typed in a few random URLs and got the old 404 page.

WooHoo for me.

 

[zouzas]

im glad they shut it down but it is a waste of traffic if verisign wasn;t so hoggish and gave a larger % of the revenue from site finder to a better the web fund or some other charity they probably would be able to keep it?

 

[Spider]

They wouldn't have been able to keep it no matter what. It just causes too many issues beyond lost http traffic.

 

[DaddyHalbucks]

VeriSign blows.

 

[DaddyHalbucks]

That amounts to 1 billion hits a year. I assume Verisign could have made a lot of money by steering that traffic to well paying websites.
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A billion here, a billion there --and pretty soon you are talking REAL hits!!

 

[Steen]

SiteFinder is coming back...



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YAY