] Despite the Internet community's near unanimous outcry ] against the Site Finder service, it quickly learned just ] how powerless it has become. ICANN, the supposed steward ] of the domain name system, took until Friday evening ] to issue a weak statement calling on VeriSign to ] voluntarily suspend the Site Finder service while it ] reviewed the matter.... ] Regardless of the eventual outcome, Internet users will ] look back on the day that Internet governance mattered ] and remember that they didn't. [Politech] Michael Geist's column on VeriSign's domain name redirection |