] 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