ICANN/GNSO GNSO Email List Archives

[ga]

<<< Chronological Index >>>    <<< Thread Index >>>

RE: [ga] Verisign to revive redirect service

  • To: "Karl Auerbach" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "[GA]" <ga@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: [ga] Verisign to revive redirect service
  • From: "John Berryhill" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:08:14 -0400
  • Importance: Normal
  • In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310162058150.18298-100000@npax.cavebear.com>
  • Sender: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Is there anything to stop the root server operators from just DELETING
> > the wildcard entry out of the zone files provided by Verisign?
>
> There is much to stop the root server operators from doing that.  The
> reason is that the wildcard setting is in the .com zone, not in the root
> zone.


Of course, there is nothing stopping the root server operators from taking
wildcarding to the next logical level - using a wildcard record in the root
zone in order to direct traffic to a search page in response to things like
"icann.rog" and other TLD typos.

If ICANN had half a brain, they would do this and collect some revenue,
given the proportion of root server traffic that is looking for a domain
which does not exist in the ICANN root zone.
<<< Chronological Index >>>    <<< Thread Index >>>