Greetings to all, as you might guess from the subject, this mail is about a bad DNS trick. Our commercial people have been approached by some people in a subsidiary company trying to sell a "moneytizing product" that takes advantage of user error pages when serfing the web. In the subsidiary company the solution is already deployed in their production and it also involves cooperation with a search engine. The important thing is that Google refused to cooperate with them and they expressed their position against moneytizing error pages. Of course, the solution involves NXDOMAIN remapping. We as technical people are against the idea. Apart from technical implications that are difficult to explain to non-technical people, we would like to have some arguments supporting our position. Since a lot of people in this list might already have come across the problem (and some might already have implemented such a thing) I would be interested to hear your oppinions. Apart from respected voices expressing their opposition to such techniques [1], I would be interested in other arguments such as legal implications, costs or any other arguments anyone has used in a similar situation. By the way, there is an expired Informational rfc about the subject [2]. Cheers, Kostas [1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302 [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-livingood-dns-redirect-03 -- Kostas Zorbadelos twitter:@kzorbadelos http://gr.linkedin.com/in/kzorba ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- () www.asciiribbon.org - against HTML e-mail & proprietary attachments /\