September 16, 2003

Wildcard domains???

I mistyped a domain name today and ended up at a Verisign page. Thinking that was odd, I tried another random domain name. And another. It seems that every domain name in .com (at least) that isn't registered now resolves to Verisign, instead of returning an error.

$ host skjfwiejfwjf3i2j4fiwjf.com
skjfwiejfwjf3i2j4fiwjf.com has address 64.94.110.11

This is just wrong. What the hell is wrong with Verisign? Damn crackheads...

Posted by Mike at September 16, 2003 09:34 PM
Comments

It's called DNS you fool.....

Posted by: Sly on September 16, 2003 10:15 PM

Yeah, thanks for clearing that up.

Posted by: Mike on September 16, 2003 10:20 PM

If this was the slimiest thing Verisign ever did, I'd be thrilled. It's kind of tacky, sure, and it actually does have an impact on spam detection, but other than that, meh.

Posted by: russell on September 23, 2003 08:20 AM

Yeah, well, this is the same company that once managed to release a digital certificate in Microsoft's name to someone who wasn't actually from Microsoft. Just all part of Verisign's commitment to security ... or something like that ... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=43fd979a-03c1-4008-b38d-70e9bcd67454

Posted by: Mike on October 2, 2003 10:54 PM