{"id":496,"date":"2003-09-16T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2003-09-16T13:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=496"},"modified":"2003-09-16T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2003-09-16T13:23:48","slug":"verisign-breaks-dns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2003\/09\/16\/verisign-breaks-dns\/","title":{"rendered":"Verisign Breaks DNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Verisign put a wildcard A record into each of the .com and .net top-level-domain records.  The effect of this is that every time anyone requests a lookup of a non-existent second level domain name in either .com or .net, they will be supplied with the address of one of Verisign&#8217;s servers.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead &#8211; try this link:  <a href=\"http:\/\/some-nonexistent-domain-name.com\">http:\/\/some-nonexistent-domain-name.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For web browsing, this means you are directed to their &#8220;site not found&#8221; page.<\/p>\n<p>For email, this means that every misspelled address will mean that Verisign can receive that email.<\/p>\n<p>For programs which rely on DNS lookups (and lookup failures) to perform their duties, EVERYTHING in .com and .net now resolves successfully.<\/p>\n<p>What a boneheaded move.  I can&#8217;t say it&#8217;s out of character for Verisign, who in my opinion has treated their entrusted stewardship of top-level internet naming monopoly as their own personal playground for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhhh &#8211; here we are &#8211; now they want you to use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byte.org\/blog\/_archives\/2003\/9\/15\/2841.html\">different method<\/a> to resolve names than the one in universal common use.  I wonder how long it is before a paid license or key is required to perform these lookups?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Verisign put a wildcard A record into each of the .com and .net top-level-domain records. The effect of this is that every time anyone requests a lookup of a non-existent second level domain name in either .com or .net, they will be supplied with the address of one of Verisign&#8217;s servers. Go ahead &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}