On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Today I've noticed complaints from users within .ac.nz that requests to "google" result in various survey or commercial search farm websites.
This seems to be down to the usual helpful browser/DNS completion trying * google * google.SITE.ac.nz * google.ac.nz
and finding 74.55.102.12 returning 53KB of assorted javascript.
We're going to redirect google.SITE.ac.nz to CNAME google.co.nz for now.
The wider question -- should google.ac.nz even exist?
http://publicsuffix.org/ appears to be the central site for rules for this sort of lookup behavour ( it actually covers cookies but I think the overlap is there). .nz doesn't look correct however. See also wpad.co.nz -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.