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Re: Verisign Responds

  • From: Paul Vixie
  • Date: Tue Sep 23 14:09:38 2003 
> I wonder btw why Verisign didn't catch the "typo's" in their
> own domains if they think it is that important:
> ...
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;wwww.verisign.com.             IN      A

wildcards don't work that way.  there are ns rr's in .com for verisign.com,
so you get a referral to those servers no matter whether a *.com wildcard
exists or not.