Is it a question of stability, or just someone doing something we don't like to see?
I certainly consider it to be a stability issue. Every month fifty million domains appear, sit parked for 4.99 days, then disappear. Most of them are typosquats, misspelling of established domains. Speculators have argued that all these squats provide a service: they usually have a paid link to the domain the user actually wanted, and if you land on the squat, you or your search engine must have made a mistake which they are helping you rectify for a small fee. I find this argument absurd. If I want my spelling corrected (which I do, being a lousy typist), I want to use a corrector of my choice, triggered off an NXDOMAIN response in my browser, not some random speculator. And, of course, the squats are of no help fixing typos in mail and all the other Internet services other than the web. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.