Has anybody noticed all of a sudden there is no "Page Not Found" error anymore?! Type a non-existent dot com domain name in your browser and hit enter. It will be redirected to Verisign's Site Finder!

Yes! According to slashdot, verisign added a wildcard A record to the .COM and .NET TLD DNS zones. The IP address returned is 64.94.110.11, which reverses to sitefinder.verisign.com.

That basically sucks! Now we cannot examine the network to see if a domain name is looked up and actually exists (of course, unless we don't use ICANN's root servers). In addition to that, there will be a lot harder to guess if an e-mail is spam or not since the domain name is always looked up!

If it's not cybersquatting and it's not illegal, what IS this?! They apparently even patented the technology! :) [Network gurus and technical people are gonna love this document!]