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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



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