Brian Gibbons wrote:
Don't forget that up until now Microsoft owned the World Wide Web.
Type this into IE www.dfghjkl.co.nz, rather than getting a DNS error you end up at Xtra MSN, thus Microsoft have built logic into IE to redirect non existant domain errors to a Microsoft MSN affiliate.
No, the analogy doesn't hold. To start with, you can change the default search page in IE quite easily (and Microsoft even provides the tools for that). Also, it's not just domains that it searches for. Second, you don't have to use IE and finally, IE doesn't 0wn j00 emailZ. Currently, there is no way to avoid Verisign for .net and .com name resolution.
I suspect that Microsoft and their affiliates will be a bit pissed that their MSN Web servers have suddenly gone quiet, IE no longer redirects bad .com URLs, they hit Verisigns servers instead.
Goes without saying. -- Juha