[wildcard-comments] Wildcard System degrades possibility for automatic link checking validity

["Kirk Potter" <Kirk.Potter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Sirs,

Content Management Systems (CMS) often provide link checking
functionality for external links provided in a content managed site.
This would normally be done by making an HTTP request to the given page
(if appropriate) and checking the HTTP response code. In the case of
uninstantiated .com or .net domains this check is easy to perform and
validate until Verisign made their change.

It now means that CMSs now need to look at specific headers to detect
the verisign site finder site specifically and this presentw issues for
the future if they change the site in any way.
What was once zero maintenance now has a maintenance element that was
never invisaged nor expected.

We and I am sure many other CMS providers would strongly object to the
wildcard response to uninstantiated domains and move that it should be
removed.

Best Regards,

Kirk Potter
R&D Director
C(2) Software 
Tayside Software Centre 
Technology Park 
Dundee 
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