Hiawatha Bray quotes a Verisign spokesperson in the Boston Globe: "VeriSign began work on the system a year ago, spokesman Tom Galvin said. 'We began to think of a service that would help improve Web navigation,' he said. Galvin said VeriSign informed a major Internet regulatory body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), of the Site Finder plan. He said ICANN president Paul Twomey raised no objections."