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September 22, 2003
Stupid Internet Things
Well, I don't like the look of empty space on this page, so I've decided to comment on some crap that I think is dumb. And perhaps show a little opinion at the same time.
Verisign beginning wildcard resolution in the .net and .com TLDs. This sort of behavior by an organization entrusted with coordinating this important part of the internet. An organization/company is chosen to register names and map them to numbers. Part of the specification is to allow for wildcards or hierarchical resolution. The names evolve to an abstract sort of property as claims are staked in the frontier of the internet. So these people decide to take every hostname that doesn't exist and resolve it to their own address, where they can helpfully try and help you find the domain you were looking for. Of course this presupposes that I typed in a hostname to be looked up. Of course the eyes and benefits of clients looking at their webpage outweigh the costs of validating invalid hosts that are made up by spammers.
Posted by KnipSter at September 22, 2003 09:20 PM
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