How can you make the entire Internet community hate you forever in one easy lesson? Answer: Stuff around with a central tenet of the Internet. Outrage over Verisign’s decision to resolve URL error messages to its own domain registrar continues to echo around the Internet today. Jeremy Zawodny calls Verisign “pure evil,” (via Scripting News), Slashdot readers had colorful words to describe the company, while The Reg reports “Net admins being urged to block Verisign’s catch-all domain.” Jon Udell he called me today about this story, and in passing offered some great insight: “The Internet is supposed to be comprised of dumb switches in the middle.” Apparently Verisign thinks that needs to change. Technology Industry