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The Internet is no longer "over"

It’s been a few days since Versign did the right thing (but not without much whining, crying and outright lying — yeah, guys, “lots of people” loooooved SiteFinder — but typing a non-existent or invalid domain name no longer brings you to their search page.

My Python script for testing whether or not the Internet is over (which caught the attention of at least one techie site) now spits out the result “It’s still good”, but the most heartening thing is this lovely dialog box that Safari displayed:

Joey deVilla

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