RE: [ga] Verisign to revive redirect service

["J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin" <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:08 17/10/03, John Berryhill wrote:
> 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.

Wih 97.5% of the calls to the root system being unliegitimate, would make 
IcannMess the leading site on the net.

> 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.

They could even know that way which next TLDs to permit .....

".con" ?  ("dump" in French slang)
jfc