Uk.com wildcard raises Net stability worries

[mandy]

A decision by British company CentralNic to make all unregistered domains ending with "uk.com" direct to its own webpage has raised concerns over the future stability of the Internet.

ICANN insisted that the owner of all dotcoms (and dotnets), VeriSign, pulls its version of the wildcard system... when it caused widespread disturbance across the Internet as email systems and spam filters stopped working.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/14/..._wildcard/