EarthLink
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Reference
Dead Domain Handling Incident
In late August or early September, Earthlink apparently changed the way they handle unresolved domain names so that web browsers attempting to load such pages would be redirected to a "search help" page on one of Earthlink's servers rather than simply returning a "site not found" message. This new feature was widely criticized, and caused at least one well-documented loss of time and productivity.
- 2006-09-07 Update on Dead Domain Handling
- 2006-09-03 EarthLink Establishes Their Own "Site Finder"
Notes
From Aero:
aero@lionheart:~$ host heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com Host heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) aero@lionheart:~$ host heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com has address 209.86.66.91 heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com has address 209.86.66.92 heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com has address 209.86.66.93 heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com has address 209.86.66.94 heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com has address 209.86.66.95 heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com has address 209.86.66.90 aero@lionheart:~$ host heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com Host heywoozlethisdomaindoesnotexist.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) aero@lionheart:~$