dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
| Re: Not happening on Earthlink Cable Customers There's someone out there doing this for URLs without a domain name, though it doesn't seem to happen on all ISPs (I've seen it on Road Runner, Cox, Comcast and BellSouth for sure, and I think I've seen it on SBC/ATT). I first discovered it because of my employer's VPN - people try to access an internal site (no domain name, for example "http://homepage") while not on the VPN and get redirected to "Future home of .homepage information.com". I've tried this on my own machines with no VPN software installed and duplicated the results - basically any URL without a domain gets redirected instead of failing a DNS lookup, and the "information.com" page (IP always in the range 69.x.x.x) will pop up a couple more windows if popups are not blocked, at least one of which usually attempts a drive-by download. I'm really surprised I haven't seen this mentioned here as it started almost a year ago. |
