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GoDaddy Sues VeriSign, Google Dropping Spam Sites and Passing out the PageRank Penalties - Search Engines News and Articles - May 15, 2002

Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 9:54pm
Interesting news, but not directly related to search engine optimization or search engines in general: VeriSign is being sued because of all those emails they sent to people who had registered domains with companies like GoDaddy. Basically, they sent out emails warning domain name holders that their names were about to expire, and instructing them to renew their listing by buying a service from VeriSign. The problem was, they sent these emails to people who's domains were not about to expire. We got plenty of them. Here's the story:

VeriSign Used False Ads, Suit by Rival Asserts
Mon May 13, 5:12 PM ET
By Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters)

There's also an interesting article about Google:

Nettrends: Google Faces Tricky Challenge Managing Success
May 15, 2002 02:08 PM ET
By Andrea Orr
PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters)