Re: Verisign to Make Money from Typos

From: Dave Warren (maillist@devilsplayground.net)
Date: Sat Sep 13 2003 - 14:04:38 EDT


Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>> 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.

Why not? Wildcarded NS records and A records could do the trick.

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