DNS squatting and recycling On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:10:19 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >SSA was an industry standard for a few milliseconds in 1997. It's >sad/amusing to scan the Wayback Machine for the quondam SSA Industry >Association site www.ssaia.org . From 1997 to early 1998, it's there, >along with an impressive list of industry members, from Adaptec >through DEC (heh), Dell, IBM, and Zitel, with more in between. Then >it's stagnant through 2000, "domain available" in 2001, and then >"Cindy" and various others would like you to explore their charms >after that. > Doesn't "Cindy" obtain statistics on failed DNS lookups so she can optimize the ROI on the resource she spends registering domain names. I know OpenDNS, e.g., squats on failed lookups (typos?) and redirects to ads (this is a nightmare for auto-proxy). Does OpenDNS also sell its list to "Cindy"?
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