Comments on: Time Warner, Yahoo Team Up to Cybersquat

By: Time Warner / Road Runner Hijacking Tribune Company’s TVListings.com Typo? | Elliot's Blog

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:29:11 +0000

[...] was so annoyed by this practice that I opted out of the Road Runner service, so when I typo a domain name that doesn’t exist, I am suppose to be taken to an error page [...]

By: Verizon, Why You Gotta Mess With My Settings?

Verizon, Why You Gotta Mess With My Settings? — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:27:54 +0000

[...] still exists in a completely different world from that of the desktop or the notebook. If people connected to the web and found their settings changed by their ISP, there would be freakouts all over the [...]

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Verizon Sued Over Error Redirects - The Domain Industry's News Source

Tue, 27 May 2008 19:00:41 +0000

[...] written about these error redirects many times. The bottom line is that some of CADNA’s members, including Dell and Verizon, infringe [...]

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Frank Schilling’s Defensive Patent - The Domain Industry's News Source

Wed, 14 May 2008 16:37:32 +0000

[...] have systems similar to what the patent describes. These systems, such as those used by Time Warner and Gateway, capture typo traffic and send it to their own pages full of ads (instead of to the [...]

By: woolwit

woolwit — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:55:10 +0000

Thing is “Open”DNS (it’s not Open software) is now hijacking non-resolving type-ins as well. Even with typo correction set to off. How lame! They redirect to OpenDns’s ‘guide’ page- ads.
And on a podcast the other day I heard where a non-resolving type-in went to a page full of ads sponsored by Dell, i.e. The computer came pre-configured to resolve to a Dell sponsored ad page when typing a non-resolving domain name into the IE browser! Everybody wants a piece of your error traffic. Maybe the recent news about DNS redirects opening
holes for hackers to hijack the web will lead to my getting a 404 back. Or maybe someone will build a business model around providing a ‘old school’ DNS.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:58:32 +0000

@corinnew – Thanks — I’ll suggest that to my wife.

I used to have a heck of a time connecting to DomainNameWire. I’d IM someone and they were connecting fine…so I could tell it was an ISP problem. If you do a TRACEROUTE it shows that it’s working fine!

By: corinnew

corinnew — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:42:30 +0000

@ Andrew: I switched to OpenDNS since I commented here and have been problem-free since.

RR kept telling me too that Google was gone!! Time Warner doesn’t want to hear anything about this though, so I wouldn’t waste my time – believe me I learned this the hard way…

Wired ran a good story a few days ago on ISPs trying to cash in on domain redirection and how this creates potential security problems: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/isps-error-page.html