>From http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71345-0.html

Essentially, there's now an opt-in VeriSign Site Finder
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder) service that targets
phishers and typosquatters and is enabled through changing your DNS
servers to theirs. Basically, if you type in the wrong spelling of a
domain, it sends you to the 'actual' one that it's determined you
wanted to originally see. Also, in the event that you try to access a
domain that doesn't exist, it sends you to their search page (with
advertising, of course).

I tried it out with dig and noticed it returned a pretty curious
response (that broke RFC): "dosjwpdojwpodjwopjdwopjd9wjd.com. 1 IN A
208.67.219.40". The response for any domain that doesn't exist should
be a "status: NXDOMAIN", but this returned "status: NOERROR".

It seems that, even if this is backed by Ulevitch, and I'm pretty sure
he's a good guy and all for net neutrality and free access, there's a
huge problem in that ISPs could use the same technology and perhaps
even intentions to grossly change the way that DNS is currently
handled, and to segregate the, for the moment, global namespace.

I guess I have a few questions that I think I've already sorted out,
but perhaps are important to ask:

1) Is this in the best interest of the future of a neutral end-to-end Internet?

2) Should ISPs be able to do the same thing?
2b) If so, is it okay if they only remove their own typo-squatters  or
charge a fee to remove them?
2c) If not, does that mean legislative action that disallows OpenDNS
from operating?

Christopher

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