VeriSign enters typo redirect business
Posted: 2003-09-16 10:47am
Story on The Register
Talk about blatant advertising. And it'll also royally fuck up the mail system.Verisign yesterday added wildcard DNS records to all .com and .net domains - redirecting surfers who get lost on the Net to a search page, called Site Finder, run by the company. Those who type in non-existent addresses will also be served up Site Finder, instead of an error message.