Re: [At-Large] Network Solutions hijacking unassigned sub domains?
This is sickening and appalling behavior by NetSol. Internet names and numbers are not owned but are in the public trust. Network Solutions is acting as if these subdomains are their own private property. This program is the registrar equivalent of VeriSign's Sitefinder debacle. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
A quick review of the article (below) - specifically some of the comments - seem to indicate that a Network solutions name server might have been used. If that is the case, then - the advert that was displayed is actually expected. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/network-solutions-hijacking-unassigned-... Why - well, if you outsource your NS and don't configure your DNS properly (ie. add a wildcard entry) - then you could get adds. i checked the privaterra.org domain i have registered with tucows. As I use their DNS services , and don't have a wildcard entry setup, well, typing in http://does_not_exist.privaterra.org does send you to a ad page. Expected - yes. So, from my perspective, the news network solutions "hijacking" sites - might not technically be correct. Instead, it could be an issue of a registrant not being familiar with the consequences of an outsourced NS server. Recommend - ALS's and ICANN should develop materials, and guides to improve understand about domain name registration.. regards Robert On 9-Apr-08, at 12:08 PM, Danny Younger wrote:
This is sickening and appalling behavior by NetSol. Internet names and numbers are not owned but are in the public trust. Network Solutions is acting as if these subdomains are their own private property. This program is the registrar equivalent of VeriSign's Sitefinder debacle.
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This is one of those issues best resolved by moving your registration. Once you start asking ICANN to regulate the third- and up levels of domain name registrations, you're committed to applying the UDRP, whois accuracy, and a host of other obligations to that level as well. It doesn't scale, and investing regulatory time and money into something that a market can correct isn't, IMO, a wise use of finite resources. Bret
If it goes to an ad page, you should get the $$ I think a good solution is for them to display a 404 page or to redirect to the main domain page. It sucks that they are charging for the service as well as making ad $$ off the domain. Also, these ads screw your Google page ranking. I don't think we should require everyone who registers a domain to host a blog or their family photos to be knowlegeable to this extent Jacqueline On 4/9/08, Robert Guerra <lists@privaterra.info> wrote:
A quick review of the article (below) - specifically some of the comments - seem to indicate that a Network solutions name server might have been used. If that is the case, then - the advert that was displayed is actually expected.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/network-solutions-hijacking-unassigned-...
Why - well, if you outsource your NS and don't configure your DNS properly (ie. add a wildcard entry) - then you could get adds.
i checked the privaterra.org domain i have registered with tucows. As I use their DNS services , and don't have a wildcard entry setup, well, typing in http://does_not_exist.privaterra.org does send you to a ad page.
Expected - yes.
So, from my perspective, the news network solutions "hijacking" sites - might not technically be correct. Instead, it could be an issue of a registrant not being familiar with the consequences of an outsourced NS server.
Recommend - ALS's and ICANN should develop materials, and guides to improve understand about domain name registration..
regards
Robert
On 9-Apr-08, at 12:08 PM, Danny Younger wrote:
This is sickening and appalling behavior by NetSol. Internet names and numbers are not owned but are in the public trust. Network Solutions is acting as if these subdomains are their own private property. This program is the registrar equivalent of VeriSign's Sitefinder debacle.
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On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:08 PM, Danny Younger wrote:
This is sickening and appalling behavior by NetSol. Internet names and numbers are not owned but are in the public trust. Network Solutions is acting as if these subdomains are their own private property. This program is the registrar equivalent of VeriSign's Sitefinder debacle.
I'm not sure I see it the same way. I do agree that this is a questionable business move and certainly not customer friendly from what I understand of it. But, any domain owner is free to use whichever DNS server they wish to resolve their domain names. If there is any aspect of the registration system that is freer than this one, I have yet to see it. With all registrars, domain owners can point their registration at any set of domain name servers which they can use to resolve their names. Certainly DNS resolution is most often provided free for registrants as part of a registration, but no one is bound to use those services (unless there are also contract shenanigans going on that I don't know about). It is trivial to set up new DNS for your domain if you don't like what NSI is doing. BTW - this isn't the registrar equivalent of the Verisign's sitefinder - it is the dns provider equivalent of Verisign's sitefinder. This isn't a semantic distinction, I'm pointing it out because ICANN doesn't have oversight of the DNS within its mandate - at least not at a level that affects individual DNS operators. -r
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