This might not mean much to most of you, but as of 15 September this year, VeriSign [the company responsible for making sure all your domain names point to the right place] decided to "wildcard" every single free available domain name. The result meant that your usual "name error" pages now returned a VeriSign branded "Site Finder" search page which we now know to be part of a new stealth marketing campaign. This is a blant abuse of power by VeriSign and so ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee [the good guys] are trying to stop it. ICANN have released a memo titled Recommendations Regarding VeriSign's Introduction of Wild Card Response to Uninstantiated Domains within COM and NET, it reads something like this: "To gather information on security and stability implications, we invite inputs from all interested parties. Send inputs to:. Further, we will meet publicly in the Washington, D.C. area on October 7, 2003, for interested parties to present factual information relevant to the security and stability of the Internet. Details will be available shortly. " Stand up for your DNS rights.