ICANN announcement that it has issued an ultimatum to VeriSign over the widespread harmful effects of the registrar's unilateral implementation of wildcards for .com and .net.

Reports that network admins are furious at Verisign for redirecting requests for nonexistent domains to an advertisement. [The Register]

Text of a form e-mail sent by VeriSign to seek confirmation of a registrar change request and criticism of this process' implementation.

Scan of and short comment on "Domain Name Expiration Notice" letter sent by VeriSign.

A federal lawsuit charges VeriSign with misuse of its position as official registrar to create an unfair competitive advantage by hijacking queries about unregistered domain names. [Web Host Industry Review]

Cartoon commentary on DNS wildcards. Readers voice their opinions. [User Friendly]

A report says that VeriSign's redirection of nonexistent domain names to its own site violated accepted norms of conduct, and harmed businesses and individual Internet users. [CNET News.com]

Conclusion to a tale of poor service from Verisign.

Bulletin board about the bad business practices and service of NSI/Verisign.

Petition to ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce, saying that Verisign's history of incompetence and unethical behavior merits the removal of their control over .com and .net.

Longtime Internet litigator Ira Rothken has filed a class action suit against VeriSign over the registrar's redirection of mistyped .com and .net names to a search page it controls. [CNET News.com]

The registrar's one-sided decision to change how an Internet protocol functions, without even a Request For Comments, shows that some things are too important to be left in the hands of those whose chief concern is making a buck. [Salon]

"VeriSign apparently has a campaign going on to illegally threaten their former customers who have long moved their domains to one of the many alternate registrars that they would quickly lose their existing domains if they didn't 'renew' them with VeriSign by clicking on a link provided in an email." News and reader discussion. [kuro5hin]

CNET News article about the company's surprise decision to take control of all unassigned .com and .net domain names.

A collection of links to information about problems with VeriSign/Network Solutions/NetSol, and alternatives to VeriSign.

Popular Enterprises, the operator of Netster.com, has filed suit against VeriSign, alleging antitrust violations and unfair business practices. [IDG News Service]

Spam-fighters, computer security experts, and engineers are critical of VeriSign's decision to serve up advertisements in place of notices that a domain name does not exist. [ZDNet]

The search page at VeriSign, which appears for all mistyped .com and .net sites, passes information to a marketing firm. A computer security researcher said that this could include personal information. [The Sydney Morning Herald]

Thomas C. Greene writes: "Now Verisign (formerly Network Solutions) is taking heat for a practice which borders on registrar slamming." [The Register]

Warning mail from GoDaddy Software to its customers about deceptive expiration notices which transfer registration to Verisign at triple the renewal cost. [Politech]

VeriSign's pay-for-play search, which appears for all unregistered .com and .net web sites, tries to set a cookie for a third party. Privacy advocates also worry that the registrar may be harvesting e-mail addresses. [SecurityFocus]