[wildcard-comments] Unfair and irritating

[Stephane Benoit <stefb@xxxxxxxxx>]

We are a small isp in France and find it very irritating to see that
verisign has in some clumsy way *stolen* the unregistred domains.

for webbrosing users esp. foreigners switching from a native language error 
message to english by producing a generic webpage. I reckon this *hack* was 
perpetuated in the sole purpose of gaining a very high exposure and certainly 
not with helping the users in mind. Therefore the *feature*, IMHO, should be 
stopped ASAP.

I think also that it goes against icann's decision to dismantle netsol's gTLDs 
monopoly, and is *very* unfair for all other registars.

i see an effctive growth in undetected spam (esp. with sendmail option "accept 
unresolvable domain")

It's also wasting world wide bandwith, because a dns error response is so much 
smaller than their 'default webpage"

I know there's a way round with an isc bind configuration directive, but this 
means extra work for all dns admins.

Please, please make them stop.

Regards,
Stephane Benoit