RE: [ga] Verisign to revive redirect service
> > Is there anything to stop the root server operators from just DELETING
> > the wildcard entry out of the zone files provided by Verisign?
>
> There is much to stop the root server operators from doing that. The
> reason is that the wildcard setting is in the .com zone, not in the root
> zone.
Of course, there is nothing stopping the root server operators from taking
wildcarding to the next logical level - using a wildcard record in the root
zone in order to direct traffic to a search page in response to things like
"icann.rog" and other TLD typos.
If ICANN had half a brain, they would do this and collect some revenue,
given the proportion of root server traffic that is looking for a domain
which does not exist in the ICANN root zone.