Matt Rudderham wrote on Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:51:08 -0300:
> Just incase anyone doesn't read Slashdot, this seems disturbing, if a user
> lands on a non-existant / deleted domain they will be given the opportunity
> to buy it from Verisign?
>
I don't see how they would be able to technically achieve this. They can't
hand out a faked IP for every dns lookup for a non-existant com/net domain.
If they make every com/net domain exist they would break a lot of things on
the technical side of the net.
Kai
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