* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher L. Morrow) [Thu 13 Jul 2006, 16:55 CEST]:
So If grandma Jane goes to fobar.com (which gets
corrected/redirected/blah) to foobar.com and sees some content she
really likes she may tell grandma June. Grandma June goes to fobar.com
and gets the IE error message saying 'site does not exist. She calls her
ISP to find out why the site is down.
This is a very oversimplified example, I admit. It does show a simple
example though of inconsistency and why that could be 'bad' or atleast
problematic. (It might also argue for universal adoption of this
technology, which I still 'just dont like', which also might be the
crazy pills)
I don't think it's such a good example. Here's why:
The redirect from fobar.com to foobar.com doesn't happen on a DNS level.
This is a good thing, as name-based virtual hosting wouldn't work anymore.
So instead of getting the MSIE search page Jane gets the OpenDNS search
page, can select foobar.com and then read out the URL in her browser's
Location bar to June.
(ironically, www.fobar.com is an alias for
ad.funnel.revenuedirect.com.akadns.net.)
-- Niels.