Adam Roach; > Because this is probably a community of interest for the > topic of DNS, I thought it would be worthwhile mentioning > that Verisign has apparently unilaterally put in place > wildcard DNS records for *.com and *.net. All unregistered > domains in .com and .net now resolve to 64.94.110.11, which > runs a Verisign-operated web search engine on port 80. A very interesting stupidity. However, as I checked whois database of verisign for "*.com" and "*.net", the answers are negative No match for "*.COM". No match for "*.NET". that, according to verysign, they are not registered domain names. So, I tried to get the names by myself, for obvious reasons :-), through www.verisign.com. :-) But, my request was denied as Please use only letters, numbers or dashes [-]. Do not enter spaces, periods [.] or other punctuation. that they are, according to verisign, not domain names open for registration. So, the remaining question is whether the stupidity is interesting enough to make verisign not to be qualified to be a gtld registry anymore or not. Masataka Ohta