This gave VeriSign the advantage of receiving greater revenue from advertising and from users wishing to register these domain names.
VeriSign described the change as an attempt to improve the Web browsing experience for the naive user, without mentioning any use of the domain name system other than by browsers.
[2] There was a storm of controversy among network operators and competing domain registrars, particularly on the influential NANOG and ICANN mailing lists, some of whom asserted: Others were concerned that the Site Finder service was written entirely in English and therefore was not accessible by non-English readers.
A number of workarounds were developed to locally disable the effects of Site Finder on a per-network basis.
"[6] On July 9, 2004, the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) handed down its findings after an investigation on Site Finder.