The Register's coverage - All your Web typos are belong to us - is the least emotional I've seen so far, personally I'm fuming about it. These people are not fit to be let near a domain server, and I'm still angry about the protracted wrangling I had with them to transfer Feetup.org to a real domain registrar...

If anyone else wanted an unlimited supply of .com and .net dns addresses for the purposes of selling advertising and domains they'd quite rightly have to pay a King's ransom, why should VeriSign be any different?

The only positive thing is that they'll be receiving quite significant amounts of spam. Fortunately patches for Bind 8 and 9 are now available, and it's probably worth black holing 64.94.110.11 too.

Update: ICANN have for once shown some backbone and forced VeriSign to remove Sitefinder - Report from El Reg.