Site Finder Company

The Internet's key traffic cop bowed to pressure and agreed to suspend a new online search service blamed for such side effects as disabling junk e-mail filters and networked printers. The decision came hours after the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, the main oversight body for the Internet, threatened to sue VeriSign Inc. unless it shut its Site Finder service. The company manages ".com" and ".net" addresses as well as the global network's central directory computers.

The Internet's key traffic cop bowed to pressure and agreed to suspend a new online search service blamed for such side effects as disabling junk e-mail filters and networked printers. The decision came hours after the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, the main oversight body for the Internet, threatened to sue VeriSign Inc. unless it shut its Site Finder service. The company manages ".com" and ".net" addresses as well as the global network's central directory computers.