Re: Removal of wildcard A records from .com and .net zones

[Matt Levine <matt () deliver3 com>]

On Oct 3, 2003, at 5:50 PM, Matt Larson wrote:

> VeriSign was directed by ICANN to suspend the Site Finder service by
> 0100 UTC on Sunday, October 5.  We requested an extension from ICANN
> to give more notice to the community but were denied.  We will be

So now you care about giving notice the community?  That didn't seem 
high on your priority list when you implemented it.


> removing the wildcard A records from the .com and .net zones beginning
> at 2300 UTC on Saturday, October 4.  The former behavior for these
> zones (returning Name Error/RCODE=3 in response to queries for
> nonexistent domain names) will be in place by 0100 UTC on Sunday,
> October.
>
> Matt
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> Matt Larson <mlarson () verisign com>
> VeriSign Naming and Directory Services
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