"Brian Gibbons"
From: "Juha Saarinen"
Verisign owns .com and .net?
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.
So you could say that Verisign is just playing the same game that Microsoft has been playing.
If you're going to do this, then the application level is by far the best place to do it. Browsers have been second guessing what you type into the address bar for years now. However, doing it by returning inaccurate results for DNS queries is just broken. -- James Riden / j.riden(a)massey.ac.nz / Systems Programmer - Security Information Technology Services, Massey University, NZ. GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/