VeriSign Looks At Earning Money on Domain Typos 288
Harald Paulsen writes "In a recent article Computer Business Review uncovers how VeriSign Inc is testing a service that would return a webpage if a user mistypes an URL. Basically all nonexistant domain queries could return an IP address and if the user was trying to access a page with a webbrowser they could get redirected to a search-engine, or worse: a page asking them to buy a domain. This is most certainly breaking the DNS standard and could be compared to cybersquatting (Hey Ford, want to have a banner ad whenever someone mistypes Toyota?). This is interesting in relation to an earlier story about register.com and holding-pages."
I'm confused (Score:5, Funny)
Inverted Typos (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Statistics on mistyping of "slashdot " (Score:2, Funny)
Flame Design Group (Score:5, Funny)
(San Dimas Operations...)
Don't you see (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I've said it before (Score:3, Funny)
Weena! Don't touch that nice man's machine!
Re:It is an abuse (Score:2, Funny)
Re:more IPs, less domains... (Score:5, Funny)
Ha ha! Ah ha ha! Ha!
*wipes tear*
Thanks dude, I needed that.
Re:You can't cybersquat.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Statistics on mistyping of "slashdot " (Score:5, Funny)
hmmmmm...
salsadot.org
Now, I just need to invent a few recipes for hot sauce with caffeine.
hmmm...I wonder (Score:4, Funny)
Re:mistypes an URL (Score:1, Funny)
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 21:30:59 -0800 (PST)
From: "Clay M. Bond" (bondc@indiana.edu)
On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, M K Rippberger wrote:
> Use "an" when the following word begins with a vowel SOUND:
> a university
> a United Nations proclamation
> an anonymous letter
Let me add to that a quotation from the Chicago Manual of Style, 6.49:
Such forms as "an historical study" or "an union"
are not idiomatic in American English. Before a
pronounced *h*, long *u* (or *eu*), and such a
word as *one*, the indefinite article should be *a*:
a hotel
a euphonious word
a historical study
such a one
*but*: an honor, an heir
a union
---
Clay Bond, Team OS/2
CELT Writing Coordinator, Computer Administrator
bondc@indiana.edu
http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~bondc/
Re:I'm confused (Score:4, Funny)
But, (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Typical Verisign/Network Solutions crap... (Score:3, Funny)