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AOL and Goodmail: Two Steps Back for Email

• Comment posted Feb 03, 2006 5:09 pm PST — by David A. Ulevitch
  Matt emailed me privately along with the Editor in Chief of CircleID to let me know it was actually just an unintended oversight to not indicate Matt's relationship to the article. It's been corrected.  Cool. -david

• Comment posted Feb 03, 2006 3:38 am PST — by David A. Ulevitch
  The Famous Brett Watson, Thanks—It's in truly poor taste for the author not to disclose his relationship with/against Goodmail in the article. Matt—Would you post a correction or footnote at the bottom disclosing your positions considering the tone of your…

New York Passing New Domain Name Law

• Comment posted Jun 05, 2006 2:35 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  While I like the idea of registrars being held accountable this isn't that way it should (or even can) be done. Let's see ICANN do something to punish or incentivize registrars instead. -david

• Comment posted May 25, 2006 6:16 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  One of the guys here just observed that maybe the reason Ms. Little is sponsoring this is because of the fact that: bettylittle.com [whois.opensrs.net] Registrant: James Wensley 2324 Divot Drive Saint Louis, Missouri 63131 US You think?  Wouldn't surprise me……

Forbes Discusses Domaining with Marc Ostrofsky

• Comment posted May 25, 2006 7:39 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  Ostrofsky says: MO: There are three ways people get to Google and Google makes money. You go to Google directly, you go to a link that connects you to Google, or you go to a domain name that connects you…

Domain Tasting Target of US Federal Cybersquatting Lawsuit

• Comment posted Jun 05, 2006 4:55 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  John, Well the complaint states: 31. Plaintiff's are informed and believe and on that basis allege that Dotster was both the registrant and the registrar for the Dotster Domain Names They continue to state that Dotster uses this position to…

• Comment posted Jun 05, 2006 3:25 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  The simple fact remains that each and every one of these domain names was monetized by Verisign Sitefinder quite some time ago without objection.  Not a single trademark claimant on the planet objected. From September 15th until October 4th no…

• Comment posted Jun 05, 2006 3:13 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  Suresh, http://www.scottfish.blogspot.com/ ??? ;-) -david

• Comment posted Jun 05, 2006 2:46 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  John wrote:In fact, NM’s attorney in this suit stated a belief during Domain Roundtable that if Verisign turned Sitefinder back on, then it would be perfectly acceptable for Verisign to resolve these very same names with retail advertising." I'm skeptical…

OpenDNS: It's Not SiteFinder for Obvious Reasons

• Comment posted Jan 03, 2007 12:29 am PST — by David A. Ulevitch
  Matthew, I just noticed you are in San Francisco.  Why don't we just grab lunch or something?  My cell and email are on my personal website http://david.ulevitch.com/ Thanks David Ulevitch

• Comment posted Jan 03, 2007 12:27 am PST — by David A. Ulevitch
  Matthew, Points well taken.  I know we can't announce features a month before we launch them because we move really fast and that's just not strategically wise. One really important perspective to keep in mind, if we do something to…

• Comment posted Nov 06, 2006 6:47 pm PST — by David A. Ulevitch
  Martin, I can't say I fully disagree that this is interesting waters we are walking down.  I feel strongly that users are the ultimate arbiter of what is the right thing to do.  That is why we made a specific…

• Comment posted Jul 12, 2006 3:35 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  Dan, Sit tight today and check out some announcements we're about to make that should make things even more clear (literally) about how our service operates. As for DNSSEC, I'd love to see what we can do.  From what I…

• Comment posted Jul 11, 2006 5:06 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  John, We just noticed the wired article linked to a domain that wasn't registered and rather than have someone else register it and make it a porn site we did the right thing.  And now it still shows a host…

• Comment posted Jul 10, 2006 7:57 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  So very well written Mark. The issues you bring up are critically important and nothing I take lightly.  I think we'll find the answers become more clear as we navigate forward and begin to discern what users want and what…

Nation of Cameroon Typo-Squats the Entire .com Space

• Comment posted Aug 18, 2006 5:33 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  I have to agree with John Levine.  Furthermore, if this is being done by the Government of Cameroon, why all the secrecy?  It only benefits from more transparency. I still view the entire operation as suspect.  Even if the Government…

• Comment posted Aug 18, 2006 2:30 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  The wildcard is back on. And in response to your original post John, We give users the tools they need to decide how they want it to work for them: nxdomain, have it redirect .cm to .com as a typo…

If You Adopt Vista, Your DNS Traffic is Going to Double

• Comment posted Sep 08, 2006 11:03 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  I also pointed out much of the same; To argue it doubles traffic is misleading at best.

Domain Registrations Hit 112 Million

• Comment posted Nov 30, 2006 9:51 pm PST — by David A. Ulevitch
  What percentage are parked? What percentage are constantly churned with domain-tasting? Actually, what percentage of the 9.4million were as a result of domain tasting?

Anycast Technology Effectiveness in Recent DNS Attack

• Comment posted Mar 10, 2007 3:29 am PST — by David A. Ulevitch
  There's another article over at that has a bit more commentary that might actually start a discussion. The CNET News.com article is just a rehash of the original release.

In Praise of OpenDNS and a Wii Factoid

• Comment posted Oct 24, 2007 2:07 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  Jeroen, You should be lobbying for us to setup a POP near you and to support the features you need. Will you be at ICANN in LA next week? -david

68,000 Open Recursive DNS Servers Behaving Maliciously; "This is a crime with few witnesses"

• Comment posted Dec 12, 2007 3:38 pm PST — by David A. Ulevitch
  Yes, this is a poorly written report.  I think the data is probably good, but it's obscured by inaccuracies in the write-up which I told the authors about before it published.  None of the significant errors I pointed out were…

Largest Synchronized Internet Security Effort Underway to Patch Newly Found DNS Bug

• Comment posted Jul 08, 2008 11:26 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  Larry—Yes it was. http://blog.opendns.com/ has some of our perspective. :-)

Not a Guessing Game

• Comment posted Jul 16, 2008 7:30 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  I can say with absolute certainty that Mr. Williams does not know about the vulnerability that will be disclosed. I can say with /near/ certainty that Paul didn't know about this issue before Dan raised it. But your entire post…

• Comment posted Jul 15, 2008 11:29 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  a multitude of reasons though I do think we can do something to encourage adoption…

• Comment posted Jul 15, 2008 7:10 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  It appears anycasted, but the one I tested against failed.

• Comment posted Jul 15, 2008 5:36 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  That's great George.  I'm glad we were able to help!

Shouting 'Bug' on a Crowded Internet...

• Comment posted Jul 22, 2008 6:30 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  You have a vast misunderstanding of the facts. 1) DNS impacts the entire Internet population.  2) The attack is trivial. Those two things set this apart from your comparison by ORDERS of magnitude.  Also, Dan included a wide circle of…

Day 30: Kaminsky DNS Bug Disclosure

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 5:26 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  The timeline actually begins back in march when we all met up at MSFT.  I suppose it began when kaminsky found this issue, but resolution started back in march.

Unreasonable ccTLD Registry Price Increases!

• Comment posted Sep 05, 2008 6:24 pm PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  This is how markets work.  If you are unsatisfied with their price increase you should have locked in your pricing with the registrar for an extended period of time. If your registrar wouldn't do that, perhaps you shouldn't have given…

No Way Out of Australian ISP Filters

• Comment posted Oct 14, 2008 1:55 am PDT — by David A. Ulevitch
  I don't think it's right to not include the source or link to the "Read full story" in the RSS slug.  Can you fix this?