Hi Brett,

Perhaps you can tell me why, if this is such a good thing, it isn't an
opt-in system?

Pros:

you know precisely who wants this.

you get no bad publicity.

Cons:

You actually have to 'sell' the service to people. Rather than just
assuming they want it.

Cheers,
Anand

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Brett Fenton
<brett.fenton&#167;netregistry.com.au> wrote:
> Perhaps you can tell me why any DNS provider would out of hand see this as
> something that is bad for an end user?
>
> a) They are only doing it on failed lookups (different story if they were
> pushing content on valid lookups, and I think they understand this as well)
>
> b) If you want to see a 404, you can opt out of the system
>
> c) It's only internal to their own network, you aren't forced to use it, if
> you feel that its completely untenable, you can simply use an alternate ISP.
>
> It's a completely different story to say when Verisign did it and there was no
> alternative. They rightly copped a kick in the ass.
>
>> I noticed:
>>
>> http://www.crn.com.au/News/160923,bigpond-redirects-typos-to-unethical-bran
>> ded-search-page.aspx
>>
>> And wonder if every other DNS service provider feels the same way as
>> Brett Fenton of NetRegistry.
>>
>> Anand
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