bagelcat wrote: > ok i have played now for more than an half hour with nonsense > domainnames. every time the connection goes through an exit node located > in texas, one time in the state new york and one time in denver i have > got the advertising page.
I remember something about a major DNS server that was abusing its power and redirecting requests for nonexistent domains to advertising pages. Also, ISPs sometimes redirect bad requests: http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/08/handling_dead_domains_1.php ..and get lots of flak for it. (Not nearly enough, I say!) I also came across a note that ISPs may be randomly redirecting requests for existing sites to domainsponsor.com in a bid to up their profits: http://www.infosyssec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=11395&sid=436f73bb85d55318bf53f7ff80fc64e9 - Tim McCormack