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September 17, 2003

Popular Domain Name Server Software to block VeriSign's Site Finder service. BIND, in use on 80% of the world's domain name servers, will have an emergency patch later today to block VeriSign's attempt to hijack unused .com and .net domain names, so they will continue to behave as non-existent domains.