Monday, September 22 2003

ICANN has published an advisory on Verisign's DNS abuse:

[–––] ICANN has called upon VeriSign to voluntarily suspend the service until the various reviews now underway are completed.

Either these reviews are all completed or, more likely, Verisign is simply ignoring the request.

On 2003-09-20, the day after the ICANN advisory, IAB published a commentary on the issue:

Proposed guideline: If you want to use wildcards in your zone and understand the risks, go ahead, but only do so with the informed consent of the entities that are delegated within your zone.

My guess is that the informed content of the entities within the .com and .net zones does not want Verisign to use wildcards the way they do now.