Re: [alac] Redirection of non-existing domain names

["Sebastian Ricciardi" <sricciardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good idea !

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From: "Vittorio Bertola" <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <alac@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 6:47 AM
Subject: [alac] Redirection of non-existing domain names


> http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/19/1253205&mode=nested
> 
> IcannWatch has a story about the .biz registry automatically
> redirecting requests for non-existing domain names to an arbitrary
> host chosen by itself (in this case, a pay-per-click search engine).
> This is not the first case (something similar happened with .com a few
> months ago).
> 
> Of course, answering "yes, it exists and it is this one" (+ pointer to
> registry-chosen website) rather than "no, it does not exist" when I
> ask the registry for a non-existing domain name is, in my opinion,
> highly deceiving for final users and opens all kinds of potential
> problems (from consumer frauds to trademark violation) - apart from
> violating technical standards. As someone points out, if you by
> mistake type www.googgle.biz you get a search engine as you would
> expect - but it is not Google.
> 
> If you share my views, we might emit a simple statement that asks
> ICANN to ensure that such episodes do not happen again unless specific
> policy is made on the matter (policy which, in my opinion, should
> absolutely and explicitly forbid this kind of behaviour).
> 
> Opinions?
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