Re: [Slugnet] Techgoondu: Starhub introduces “redi rection service” for invalid domains
"Jeffrey 'jf' Lim" <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Fabrice A. Marie > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 7/14/10 1:06 PM, Soh Kam Yung wrote: >> > [...] >> > In 2003, Verisign also directed users to paid search results, a move >> > which led to an investigation by the Internet Corporation for Assigned >> > Names and Numbers (ICANN). >> > [...] >> >> We should probably probably refer Starhub to ICANN arbitration in this >> DNS issue. > > I don't think ICANN has jurisdiction here, as they did with Verisign > typo-squatting for .com. > > Practical steps I could conceive of may be: > > - stop using Starhub's DNS servers (or their services altogether, if so > inclined). But the tricky part is to find alternate DNS servers that still > give you local results for DNS-based CDNs. > while the sensible thing would be to implement it using dnses, this is not how they've done it. The magic is in the proxy. And just for the record, it wouldnt be just typos that would end up getting caught. If you thought a company had a ".com.sg" (not exactly a typo in the sense of somebody "never" doing it!) but they didnt, you would get the page too. -jf -- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." --Richard Stallman "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]