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Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

  • From: David Conrad
  • Date: Mon Nov 05 14:14:10 2007


Hi,


Based on the procedures they document to opt-out, doesn't look like Sitefinder-like authoritative wildcarding. Looks more like caching server NXDOMAIN rewriting. If so, easy to get around: just run your own caching server. Also means you can't defeat this using DNSSEC (if it was actually deployed).

Regards,
-drc

On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:40 PM, David Lesher wrote:
www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/11/verizon_search.html

November 3, 2007

Subscribers to Verizon's high-powered fiber-optic Internet service
(FiOS) are reporting that when they mistype a Web site address, they
get redirected to Verizon's own search engine page -- even if they
don't have Verizon's search page set as their default.

,,,,,




You can guess most of the rest.


I guess we didn't get that wooden stake in deep enough last Tuesday...



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