| reply to fiberguy
Re: They do allow opt-out like the others I will further this argument by asking what right does an ISP have to co-opt my subdomains? Say I own billsbigcars.com, I choose not to use wildcards on the nameservers for that domain for some technical reason, and one of my potential customers tries to go to toyottas.billsbigcars.com, with an obvious misspelling of toyotas. The user (at least on Insight ... I am sure others) will STILL be redirected to the ISP search page, even though billsbigcars.com exists. What's worse, they may immediately see an ad for bobsbigcars.com, a fierce competitor, click on their site, and buy a car ... leaving me holding the bag while Insight makes money off of the ad.
This practice reminds me of the old story of the competing tow truck companies (or similar service) ... COMPANY A fooled the phone company into setting up remote access call forwarding FOR COMPANY B... and often during rush hour would forward COMPANY B's calls to COMPANY A's phone number. This was outright fraud ... and to me the redirect situation described above is exactly the same thing! |
