Comments on: Network Discrimination: The Phantom Menace? http://techliberation.com/2006/11/01/network-discrimination-the-phantom-menace/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jim Lippard http://techliberation.com/2006/11/01/network-discrimination-the-phantom-menace/comment-page-1/#comment-35756 Jim Lippard Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:07:30 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/11/01/network-discrimination-the-phantom-menace/#comment-35756 <p>There are some ISPs (Earthlink is one) which have adopted a technology somewhat similar to VeriSign's DNS Wildcard experiment. The technology intercepts DNS queries, and for those which would result in a NXDOMAIN response, redirect the user to a web page run by the ISP to "help find the correct site" and show some ads and gain some click-through revenue.</p> <p>Two companies which provide such technology are Barefruit (which Earthlink uses) and Paxfire. I believe both of those solutions provide a way for individual users to opt-out of having their typos monetized by their ISP.</p> There are some ISPs (Earthlink is one) which have adopted a technology somewhat similar to VeriSign’s DNS Wildcard experiment. The technology intercepts DNS queries, and for those which would result in a NXDOMAIN response, redirect the user to a web page run by the ISP to “help find the correct site” and show some ads and gain some click-through revenue.

Two companies which provide such technology are Barefruit (which Earthlink uses) and Paxfire. I believe both of those solutions provide a way for individual users to opt-out of having their typos monetized by their ISP.

]]> By: Jim Lippard http://techliberation.com/2006/11/01/network-discrimination-the-phantom-menace/comment-page-1/#comment-53646 Jim Lippard Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:07:30 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/11/01/network-discrimination-the-phantom-menace/#comment-53646 <p>There are some ISPs (Earthlink is one) which have adopted a technology somewhat similar to VeriSign's DNS Wildcard experiment. The technology intercepts DNS queries, and for those which would result in a NXDOMAIN response, redirect the user to a web page run by the ISP to "help find the correct site" and show some ads and gain some click-through revenue.<br><br>Two companies which provide such technology are Barefruit (which Earthlink uses) and Paxfire. I believe both of those solutions provide a way for individual users to opt-out of having their typos monetized by their ISP.</p> There are some ISPs (Earthlink is one) which have adopted a technology somewhat similar to VeriSign’s DNS Wildcard experiment. The technology intercepts DNS queries, and for those which would result in a NXDOMAIN response, redirect the user to a web page run by the ISP to “help find the correct site” and show some ads and gain some click-through revenue.

Two companies which provide such technology are Barefruit (which Earthlink uses) and Paxfire. I believe both of those solutions provide a way for individual users to opt-out of having their typos monetized by their ISP.

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