Nxdomain redirect revenue

Mon Sep 26 20:32:36 UTC 2011

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:36:51 EDT, Christopher Morrow said:
>>
>>> I'm curious, is there some belief that the use of hte nxdomain
>>> hijacking/rewriting is actually of use to 'users' ?
>>
>> "of use to users" is, in general, incompatible with "race to the bottom".
>
> my point is that on the one hand the marketeers say: "This is a great
> help to your users who are confused by the missing dns entries! They
> like it! It is a benefit and a comfort to them!"
>
> and on the other hand: "You will make lots of mullah from the nxdomain
> rewriting! it's wonderful!"

s/mullah/moolah/ :( context switch fail.

>  (plus some mumbling about, why would you want to give that money
> away to the content providers of the world for free?)
>
> -chris
> (I don't believe that it's a great help, nor that customers actually
> WANT it, nor that it makes great gobs of money... but I'm willing to
> be educated)
>