Microsoft "SiteFinder" Quietly Raking It In

An anonymous reader writes in with the news, which isn't particularly new, that Microsoft's Internet Explorer sends typo domain names to a page of pay-per-click ads. In this endeavor Microsoft joins Charter and Earthlink in profiting from the dubious practice that Verisign pioneered but failed to make stick. The article is on a site whose audience is, among others, those who attempt to profit by typo-squatting, and its tone is just a bit petulant because individuals cannot hope to profit in this game on the scale Microsoft effortlessly achieves.

Comments

Why don't Open Source browsers do that?

[mi]

If the browser developers don't need the money, there are enough good causes to contribute to. Being a browser-only thing (unlike SiteFinder, which messed up DNS for all programs, including e-mail), this is not evil — so just do it!..