At 14:08 17/10/03, John Berryhill wrote:
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.
Wih 97.5% of the calls to the root system being unliegitimate, would make IcannMess the leading site on the net.
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.
They could even know that way which next TLDs to permit .....
".con" ? ("dump" in French slang)
jfc