On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
IMHO it was irresponsible of them to do this without several months
advance notice to allow authors of automated systems which depended
on NXDOMAIN queries to notice this and without a stable documented
way to reconstitute the NXDOMAIN they're suppressing.
Agreed although some might argue we had several months notice, albeit
quietly. Verisign was far from being first at this. It's just that
their size/scope made us all notice.
Jim