[ga] RoadRunner Intercepting Domain Typos

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Another good idea here if it works well...  However my provider
has been doing this for some time now...

Sometime around midnight on February 26th (at least for
the SoCal users), TimeWarner's RoadRunner service started intercepting
failed DNS requests, redirecting them to RoadRunner's own search and
advertising platform. To see if this has been enabled in your area, try
visiting {some random string}.com in your Web browser. This feature
subverts user preferences set within browsers, which allow the user to
select which search engine receives their typos and invalid domains.
RoadRunner users can  http://ww23.rr.com/prefs.php disable this
function or they can just use OpenDNS. Here is an
http://ww23.rr.com/index.php?origURL=http://www.jkshdfkljh23sadf.com
example RoadRunner results page.

Regards,

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