OT: Verizon wildcarding DNS

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:01:50 -0500):
[...]
> It *is* an entirely different category of thing, though, than
> Sitefinder: this affects only customer resolver servers, only for your
> ISP, and you can get around it.
>
> Sitefinder affected the *zone servers for .com*, and there was thence
> no way *to* get around it; several orders of magnitude worse.

BTW, if they were really doing this to be helpful to their customers,
as they say:

     This search service is designed to make your web surfing experience
     more productive.

then they would take "ww.valid_domain" references and generate a redirect
to "www.valid_domain", rather than have them land on their search page,
which doesn't even include a link to the most-likely result they wanted.
For example, "http://ww.fptech.com" take be to a search page with several
hits for "Fabtech".  The first 1-1/2 pages are "sponsored" (ie: pay-per-
click) links.  The next 10 pages are all "FabTech" related.  Not a single
fPTech reference among them.

Ironically, "ww.verizon.com" fails their own DNS lookup.

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