220104 - RFE: Block http://sitefinder.verisign.com, to protest Verisign.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 219464

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Miguel Vargas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b; MultiZilla v1.5.0.2Beta) Gecko/20030827
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Verisign, the owner of the .com and .net TLDs, recently started redirecting
unassigned domain names to http://sitefinder.verisign.com/.  You can read the
news story here, http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5077530.html?tag=rn.

As a protest, I think mozilla should block access to that website by default. 
Right now it's just one IP address, 64.94.110.11, but if Verisign adds some more
numbers this would have to turn into a blacklist.

I think mozilla should be one of the main proponents of an open and free internet.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Already rejected.  No fixes to this issue are going to be made at the
application level.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219464 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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