] This will respond to the ICANN Advisory concerning ] VeriSign's Deployment of DNS Wildcard Service ] dated 19 September 2003. In the footsteps of several ] other registries that have done the same, we recently ] deployed a wildcard in the .com and .net zones. ] This was done after many months of testing and ] analysis and in compliance with all applicable technical ] standards. All indications are that users, ] important members of the internet community we ] all serve, are benefiting from the improved web ] navigation offered by Site Finder. These results ] are consistent with the findings from the ] extensive research we performed. Verisign Responds to ICANN |