All that's left for them to complete the "404" strategy is to put transparent proxies in place that redirect on real 404's :P<br><br>Did nobody learn the lessons from when Verisign did this with .com ? baah.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Kim Davies <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kim@cynosure.com.au">kim@cynosure.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Quoting Tom Wright on Friday November 20, 2009:<br>
| <a href="http://www.crn.com.au/News/160923,bigpond-redirects-typos-to-unethical-branded-search-page.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.crn.com.au/News/160923,bigpond-redirects-typos-to-unethical-branded-search-page.aspx</a><br>
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</div>Aside from the distaste of the concept in general, BigPond is quoted as<br>
saying:<br>
<br>
"BigPond Broadband customers from today will experience less keyboard<br>
anguish with our new DNS redirection application. Typos can happen<br>
at any time. It's frustrating when you get an MS Internet Explorer<br>
Live Search page with suggestions from a mistyped URL. It's even more<br>
annoying when you get an unfriendly "404" page error message," the<br>
letter said.<br>
<br>
"The BigPond-branded landing page provides BigPond customers with<br>
organic search results, sponsored links, display advertisements and<br>
intelligent recommendations, all derived from the invalid domain input -<br>
much more helpful and friendly than a nasty 404 page error."<br>
<br>
When would you ever get a 404 error for a non-existent domain? If they<br>
are doing NXDOMAIN redirection it will stop exactly zero 404 errors<br>
appearing for BigPond customers.<br>
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