Re: VeriSign and this A record thing.

[Michael Mansour <micoots yahoo com>]

> Why has verisign been allowed to add a wild card to
> the TLD .com and
> .net??
> 
> Now every possible domain name exists. Just try it,
> type
> http://www.dfhgfrhsfhsdhdfavsfvafhhfahFA.COM it'll
> work. This has become
> a serious problem for me, because when people
> mistype domian names, now
> they get another search engine, and they think that
> the site they wanted
> is down, or changed or gone. Is there anything that
> we can do against
> this?

It's my understanding that due to this change, the
BIND people are looking at ways to modify the NXDOMAIN
responses to stop the re-routing to Verisigns search
page.

Global dominance and greed is what it comes down to,
amazed how Microsoft hasn't got a part in it ;)

Michael.


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