said by mau108 :

I just setup the dns server for my buddy as he found it annoying too.

Changed to opendns and found opendns is doing the same type of stuff, so I found these servers are they work fast and no issues like rogers and opendns

4.2.2.1
4.2.2.2
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4.2.2.6

said by snakeyez11 :

I just set my firewall to block all outbound traffic to search.rogers.com and problem solved :)

said by FreakWillie :

VPN into your office. Browse to a company server and get a Rogers/Yahoo search result page, WTF and yes it's a big deal. Because of this, VPN users can't access servers by name over the VPN.

said by FreakWillie :

VPN into your office. Browse to a company server and get a Rogers/Yahoo search result page, WTF and yes it's a big deal. Because of this, VPN users can't access servers by name over the VPN.

said by Kahless2k :

I didnt have an issue with this at first either; however, my beef is that I did not agree that rogers can give my surfing information - even if it's only typos - to an outside (read: foreign) company.

As far as I know, under PIPEDA, we would have to specifically agree to this - it can't be hidden in the TOS and be assumed, nor can it be an opt-out kind of deal.

I plan to raise hell about this and I hope a lot of others do as well.

said by a_large_rock :

I'm getting the rogers redirect search even tho i'm using open dns.. how is that possible?

said by Quake110 :

It's the same thing with OpenDNS. Bad domains are redirected to their search pages.

said by sbrook :

Interesting ... AT&T (SBC) DNS servers!

ns1.snet.net [204.60.0.2]

said by clewis4u91 :

Good thing I'm using OpenDNS ;)

said by olesz :

Hey

If you want to get rid of those advertisements
just go to the bottom of that page and click learn more and there you can disable the service

said by Anon Nam :

Rogers can force you to use Rogers' and only Rogers' DNS servers, remember that.

said by Wikipedia :

EarthLink - EarthLink redirects nonexistent hostnames to www.earthlink-help.net, a site similar in functionality and purpose as Site Finder. EarthLink customers can opt out of this service by using alternate unsupported DNS servers provided by the company.

said by Wikipedia (emphasis mine) :

Issues and controversy

There was a storm of controversy among network operators and competing domain registrars, particularly on the influential NANOG and ICANN mailing lists, some of whom asserted:

• that the redirection was contrary to the proper operation of the DNS, ICANN policy, and the Internet architecture in general;
• that VeriSign breached its trust with the Internet community by using technical architecture for marketing purposes;
• that the redirection broke various RFCs and disrupts existing Internet services, such as e-mail relay and filtering (spam filters were not able to detect the validity of domain names);
• that the redirection amounted to typosquatting where the unregistered domain being resolved is a spelling mistake for a famous registered domain;
• that VeriSign abused its technical control over the .com and .net domains by exerting a de facto monopoly control;
• that VeriSign may have been in breach of its contracts for running the .com and .net domains;
• that the Site Finder service assumed that all DNS traffic was caused by Web clients, ignoring the fact that DNS is used by other applications such as network printer drivers, FTP software and dedicated communications applications. If users of these applications accidentally entered a wrong host name, instead of a meaningful "host not found" error they would get a "request timed out" error, making it look like the server exists but is not responding. (No statement by VeriSign in support of Site Finder even acknowledged the existence of DNS traffic not caused by web clients, although they published implementation details which mentioned this traffic. [2]
• that Site Finder contained an EULA which stated that the user accepts the terms by using the service--but since mistyping an address automatically caused the service to be used, users could not refuse to accept the terms.