On 11 May 98 at 20:16, Ryan Jeffs wrote:
There has been at least one other company that I know of in the past couple of years that has done this, although the name slips my mind. Their purpose was to hit poorly spelling surfers with ad's when they typed "ayhoo.com" or "entcom.com" etc... accidently in their browser. Legitimate use of the domains, no matter how stupid :)
An illegitmate use of these types of domain is easily proven in cases such as one I dealt with a year or so ago. In a domain that was one character off from one that my company owned, DNS revealed that there was a record for every server hostname that was on my network (and they weren't all commonly-used hostnames, either). If anyone can think of some ethical and non-malicious reason to do this, I would be interested in hearing it. Mark Borchers InfiNet