[62036] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What *are* they smoking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Crocker)
Mon Sep 15 19:23:03 2003
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:17:59 -0400
Cc: Tim Wilde <twilde@dyndns.org>, gherbert@gw.retro.com,
nanog@merit.edu
To: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
From: Matthew Crocker <matthew@crocker.com>
In-Reply-To: <200309152311.h8FNBfT23321@gw.retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 07:11 PM, George William Herbert
wrote:
>
>
>>> 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.
>
Nah, just route it to a Linux box with transparent proxy and show your
own 'Websites-R-Us' page to your customers.
