What are they smoking?

Mon Sep 15 23:17:59 UTC 2003

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 07:11 PM, George William Herbert 
wrote:

>
>
>>> A wildcard A record in the net TLD.
>>
>> It's Verisign's return shot at the web browser "couldn't find this 
>> page"
>> searches.  Doesn't seem to have much by way of advertising yet, but 
>> I'm
>> sure that'll change.  I heard about this coming from somewhere last 
>> week,
>> though I don't recall where.  Probably Wired or the WSJ.  Verisign 
>> wants
>> the revenue that all those typos are generating.  It's just the next 
>> shot
>> in the eyeball war.
>
> This is sufficiently technically and business slimy that
> I would null-route that IP, personally.
>

Nah, just route it to a Linux box with transparent proxy and show your 
own 'Websites-R-Us' page to your customers.

What *are* they smoking?

What are they smoking?