News Site finding system faces suspension

From the Beeb:

A controversial change to the way the net handles mistyped domain name queries could soon be suspended.
Last week .com and .net registry Verisign replaced the error message that usually greets users looking for mistyped or missing domains with a webpage offering alternatively spelled sites.

But Site Finder was greeted with protests who claimed Verisign was hijacking users and inadvertently helping spammers avoid detection.

Now the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) is calling for Site Finder to be suspended while it works out what effect the system is having on other net users.

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