[wildcard-comments] Sitefinder must remain turned off!

[ripclaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

As a network technician, I rely on programs telling me that a domain has not 
been registered by getting a failure response.  Allowing "Sitefinder" to 
exist will cause severe handicaps to the entire internet community, 
especially with regard to troubleshooting. 

Also, allowing Verisign to "hijack" all of the unregistered domains 
essentially gives them a monopoly on domain registration.  Other companies 
will find it much harder to compete if customers are always directed to 
Verisign's services exclusively. 

I feel that permitting Verisign to continue in this endeavor is a blatant 
breach of trust given to them when they were permitted to be the controllers 
of the top level DNS.  They obviously cannot, and will not, maintain that 
service in a fiar and equitable way.  Therefore I must strongly request that 
this right be taken away from them and given to a non-profit organization 
that can maintain it in the proper way. 

Alternately, you must request that Verisign voluntarily give up any and all 
ties to businesses that make money off of registering domains.  There is 
obviously a conflict of interests in awarding this control to a company that 
also profits from having this control. 


Thanks you,
Michael