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amartinas join:2007-11-19 USA	the article is confusion what is an "unused sub domain"? is it a domain that was created, but not pointed to a webpage? or is it a subdomain that simply isn't registered in DNS at all? either way, i dont want someone making any money from my website in any way other than directly through me with my consent. double dipping douches.
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MooJohn join:2005-12-18 Milledgeville, GA ·Windstream	Since the article wasn't perfectly clear, I checked to see whether it was a case of "lame delegation" or actual underhandedness by NetSol. Guess what -- it was the latter. It's not just that the guy created an entry for app.gotgame.com and pointed it at any particular IP address. Any subdomain you type in resolves successfully when Network Solutions is the authoritative DNS. Look up the ip for aadfwerterhwsswe.gotgame.com and it'll resolve to the same IP as his normal www. This may be different than when the story was first reported. Now you get a "page not found" message (note - not a 404 message) for any random subdomain for gotgame. FWIW, this is still the wrong way to do DNS. There is no reason for there to be a "catch all" IP for a domain name. If it doesn't exist, tell the requester that it doesn't exist! Ever since IE started with it's "friendly error messages", users have gotten a sterilized version of what the server is trying to tell them. Why dumb down the experience? -- John M - Cranky network guy
MooJohn join:2005-12-18 Milledgeville, GA ·Windstream	to forum · permalink · · 2008-04-11 23:12:16 ·
Qumahlin Never Enough Time Premium,MVM join:2001-10-05 united state	said by MooJohn : Why dumb down the experience? Because more and more of the users on the net are less experienced. Verbose messages were fine when the majority of the people using the net had a basic understanding of how it functioned, but that of course went away as the masses took to the net and companies didn't want to deal with grandma calling to say "whats a 404 and how do I fix it?"
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