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CentralNic Enables uk.com Wildcard DNS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-ideas-and-the-bottom-line dept.

JamesS writes "It appears that CentralNic has enabled wildcard DNS matching. Many Slashdot readers will remember the backlash aimed at Verisign the last time it did this nearly two years ago to the day, introducing SiteFinder to the world at large."

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  1. Is this such a big deal? by Joel+Rowbottom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    [Disclaimer: Vested interest]

    I don't see why it's such a big deal for CentralNic to do it, really. UK.com is their domain for them to do with as they wish.

    I worked for CentralNic day-to-day for a few years, and the company last enabled this in, er, 2000 I think. It lasted 3 days, during which we were subjected to a barrage of emails from people saying 'wah wah what have you done you've stolen my site' because they'd forgotten to put the 'co' in 'co.uk', and IE had attempted to be clever and autocomplete with '.com'.

    I think the change now is probably because they're doing a bit more with portals, and it makes sense for them to increase the eyeball level by doing this.

    But, er... doesn't seem such a big deal.

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    Smegma.
  2. Re:TDLA wildcard by fulldecent · · Score: 5, Funny


    If you're actually trying to get to a site called Flubber Nuts, maybe you should be whispering.
    </whisper>

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    -- I was raised on the command line, bitch