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How Time Warner Cable Is Making Money Off of Unregistered Domains
- stephaniess 12y agoIt’s normal for squatters to put ads on the domain landing page. I don’t see what the big deal is.
- rjf1331 12y agoThe point is that it wasn't a squatter - it was the ISP. Squatters pay for the right to put ads on domains they owe. The ISP does not.
- makecheck 12y agoThe first time I saw this garbage, I reset my DNS to 8.8.8.8 (Google's). That way the error makes it to the browser and I can correct my typo.
- walterbell 12y agoWhat next, ISP-provided 404 pages?
- jonifico 12y agoAdvertisement is getting so much uglier nowadays. Worst part is that instead of exposing the company and give it good name, it only makes people like us disgusted at the fact that they're supporting this. Unfortunately, most people will never find out and maybe even the companies that are being advertised.
- UnethicalHacks 12y agothis is some rather unethical stuff.
- us0r 12y agoThis is not limited to Time Warner. Verizon does it too.
- thrush 12y agoWhat can legally be done to prevent something like this? It's worth noting that this is not nearly as bad as the kind of stuff that ISPs do in some other countries...