Copied from the GA list: All, It seems that NSI (NetworkSolutions) has temporarily ceased its front running practice. This is a result of my own research and tests I have performed on their registration site during today. As far as I know there are no further information on this available on the Internet yet. In my personal opinion, this cessation is a reaction on public outrage presented by Wendy Seltzer at Special Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors held on 27 March 2008 where further evidence about front running was desired to gather. See http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-27mar08.htm, section "11. Other Business". I think there are two reasons for doing so. Not to foment the public outrage during these days and to preclude further investigation and gathering the evidence. Much like our Tasting Trinity does. No one knows how long this waiting game will take. Perhaps tomorrow or in few days the practice starts flourishing again. Dominik Additional note from Danny -- SSAC's Steve Crocker has shared his views on the front-running topic in a letter to the GNSO Council chair -- see http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg04920.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com
It seems that NSI (NetworkSolutions) has temporarily ceased its front running practice.
They've just changed it a little. Do a search for some unlikely name, then on the next screen when they say it's available, hit your browser back button and see the message that pops up. They still do front running, just less aggressively. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
John Levine wrote:
It seems that NSI (NetworkSolutions) has temporarily ceased its front running practice.
They've just changed it a little. Do a search for some unlikely name, then on the next screen when they say it's available, hit your browser back button and see the message that pops up. They still do front running, just less aggressively.
Thanks John. Since we know that users tend to click the "OK" button without reading, even on security dialogues, this has similar effect to the prior policy, with the fiction of user consent. (Interestingly, they front-ran the .com but not the .net) --Wendy -- Wendy Seltzer -- wendy@seltzer.org Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html http://www.chillingeffects.org/ https://www.torproject.org/
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