[Techtalk] Verisign wildcard DNS hijacks .net and .com for advertising purposes

[Jacinta Richardson]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Mary wrote:

> Point your browser at http://dfgdfgsfdgd.net/ or
> http://sfhjsjfhkshfjshdfjkhsdfhjsd.net/ or
> http://www.fdjlfdjkfdskdsfhjdsfhjdshdsfjkl.com/
> 
> Those .net domains aren't registered... but they now point at a Verisign
> webpage rather than not resolving. Verisign has decided to use
> unregistered domains themselves.

Are you sure?

I get an error, Gateway Timeout from Mozilla.  What browser are you using?

	Jacinta

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