Re: VeriSign ordered to cease and desist

I've complained to VeriSign when I got this letter, but they shrugged it
off. I was going to report to BBB but never did, so I'm glad this ruling
happened. This was deception at its worst -- VeriSlime must be very
desperate for money to resort to such tactics.

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Vitaly McLain <[email protected]>
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,
you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
     -- Howard Aiken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Maney" <[email protected]>
To: "LUNI discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:05 PM
Subject: [LUNI-D] VeriSign ordered to cease and desist


|
| I'm sure it will warm your hearts, much as it does mine, to hear that the
| US court has ordered VeriSign to immediately cease their deceptive
| advertising campaign.  I received one of their letters, and let me tell
you,
| I treasure it.
|
|     In a preliminary hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Frederic N.
Smalkin
|     agreed with BulkRegister, saying that VeriSign likely engaged in
|     deceptive behavior.
|
|     "The plaintiff has shown ... that the current 'renewal' notice sent by
|     defendant to plaintiff's domain-name registrants is misleading and
|     likely to cause confusion among such registrants," Smalkin wrote.
|
| VeriSlime: we put the 'con' in dot-com.
|
| --
| I personally refuse to use inferior tools because of ideology.  In
| fact, I will go as far as saying that making excuses for bad tools
| due to ideology is _stupid_, and people who do that think with
| their gonads, not their brains.  -- Linus
|
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