[62032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What *are* they smoking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George William Herbert)
Mon Sep 15 19:11:13 2003
To: Tim Wilde <twilde@dyndns.org>
Cc: gherbert@gw.retro.com, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:11:40 -0700
From: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> A wildcard A record in the net TLD.
>
>It's Verisign's return shot at the web browser "couldn't find this page"
>searches. Doesn't seem to have much by way of advertising yet, but I'm
>sure that'll change. I heard about this coming from somewhere last week,
>though I don't recall where. Probably Wired or the WSJ. Verisign wants
>the revenue that all those typos are generating. It's just the next shot
>in the eyeball war.
This is sufficiently technically and business slimy that
I would null-route that IP, personally.
-george william herbert
gherbert@retro.com