[thechat] fond memories of Verisign's wildcard DNS

Joel D Canfield joel at bizba6.com
Wed Oct 1 02:11:18 CDT 2008


Except, it looks much better with the original MS/IE formatting. Oh
well.

A guy here in town has a Kramer bass for sale for only $400. You know,
the one with an aluminum neck and split head? Wicked look, wicked
sustain. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thechat-bounces at lists.evolt.org 
> [mailto:thechat-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Joel D Canfield
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:42 PM
> To: The evolt.org social mailing list 
> Subject: [thechat] fond memories of Verisign's wildcard DNS
> 
> I'm using Google Chrome as my default web browser now. (Don't worry,
> I'll keep this as off topic as possible.) Just followed a broken link,
> and up popped a custom error page I created years ago while I was
> researching this article:
>  
>     http://evolt.org/node/60224 <http://evolt.org/node/60224>  Why
> Verisign's Wildcard DNS is a Bad Idea
>  
> and here's the error page, in all its glory:
>  
> 
> Once again, you've circumvented one of the most ignorant 
> missteps in web
> history.
> 
> The Web site you are looking for is unavailable, and due to Verisign's
> stupidity, that's all we can tell you.	
>   _____  
> 
> 
> Please try the following:
> 
> 	
> *	Send Verisign an obnoxious e-mail (oh, you've already done that?
> OK.)
> 	
> 
> 	HTTP 404.1 - Web site not found
> 	Internet Information Services
> 	
> 
>   _____  
> 
> 
> 	Technical Information (for support personnel)
> 
> 		
> 
> 	*	Background:
> 		This error indicates that the Web site you are trying to
> access has been whacked into unconciousness by Verisign. 
> Yeah; they were
> Network Solutions, those monopolizing jerks who help ensure that you
> didn't get joel.com <http://www.joel.com/> .
> 
> 		
> 
> 		
> 
> 	*	More information, don't click this link. It won't do any
> good; I've tried.
> 		Microsoft Support
> <http://www.microsoft.com/ContentRedirect.asp?prd=iis&sbp=&pve
> r=5.0&pid=
> &ID=404.1&cat=web&os=&over=&hrd=&Opt1=&Opt2=&Opt3=> 
> 
>  
> 
> --
> Joel D Canfield
> Book at BizBa6.com
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> 916.765.1712 cell
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> 
>  
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