[119464] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Cox)
Thu Nov 19 18:20:14 2009
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:49:14 +1030
From: Andrew Cox <andrew@accessplus.com.au>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4B02225D.9040904@brightok.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
As a follow up to this, one of the large Australian ISP's has just
introduced a DNS redirection "service" for all home customers.
"/The BigPond-branded landing page provides BigPond customers with
organic search results, sponsored links, display advertisements and
intelligent recommendations, all derived from the invalid domain input -
much more helpful and friendly than a nasty 404 page error./"
http://www.crn.com.au/News/160923,bigpond-redirects-typos-to-unethical-branded-search-page.aspx