Glock-40SW - Slashdot User

Comment FUD! FUD! (Score 1) 176

by Glock-40SW on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @01:02AM (#18177590) Attached to: Microsoft "SiteFinder" Quietly Raking It In

I call FUD!

> SiteFinder broke DNS for the purpose of making money.

Broke DNS? You're kidding, right? DNS works exactly how it is supposed to. The application simply handles NXDOMAIN responses from DNS how they want to. You can disable the behavior. This may be another reason to not use IE, but it is not even in the same league as what Verisign did - which changed how DNS worked.

Microsoft Tool To Help Users Avoid Typo Domains 179

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 14, 2006 @05:27PM from the slashdot-is-not-a-typo dept.

blueZ3 writes "ZDnet is running a story on a new tool from Microsoft that aims to inform users when they reach 'typo domains'. Apparently, there's concern in Redmond that IE users are being exploited by companies running ad farms on typo domains. The tool uses an automated search routine to look for domains with particular types of typographical errors--transpositions, incorrect TLDs, missing letters--and then adds the domains to a database. The eventual goal (though this isn't clear from the article) seems to be something akin to Verisign's URL redirecting, where typo domains are blocked."

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