ICANN demanded that VeriSign take down SiteFinder, threatening a lawsuit if they don't restore the does-not-exist response from the root name servers for non-existent .com and .net domains. VeriSign has sign complied, though not without releasing a nasty misleading editorial against their service's critics.
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October 10, 2003