On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 10:57, Patrick Schultz <lists-nanog@schultz.top> wrote:

Just to weigh in: Here in Germany, the largest internet provider (Deutsche Telekom) did the same thing.
It's basically just a "search guide", it redirects you to a search page and assumes you just had a typo in the URL.

Telekom stopped doing that in April, after a user reported them to the district attorney for supposed data manipulation, a misdemeanor.

If your entire Internet is just the web then it's perhaps not a big deal. But there are a lot of protocols that depend on proper functioning of NXDOMAIN. If you recall, Verisign got in a bunch of trouble for doing that back in the day at the authoritative level.