On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Fabrice A. Marie <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On 7/14/10 1:06 PM, Soh Kam Yung wrote:
> > [...]
> > In 2003, Verisign also directed users to paid search results, a move
> > which led to an investigation by the Internet Corporation for Assigned
> > Names and Numbers (ICANN).
> > [...]
>
> We should probably probably refer Starhub to ICANN arbitration in this
> DNS  issue.
>

I don't think ICANN has jurisdiction here, as they did with Verisign
typo-squatting for .com.

Practical steps I could conceive of may be:

- stop using Starhub's DNS servers (or their services altogether, if so
inclined).  But the tricky part is to find alternate DNS servers that still
give you local results for DNS-based CDNs.

- I assume that their search partner is paying them per hit so if we
generate lots of false positive traffic looking up nonsense domains, the
search partner may drop the partnership, or perhaps starhub will decide the
payback is not worthwhile if a user decides to consume 100Mbps of expensive
international bandwidth constantly querying for nonsense domains (which, by
the way, would not consume bandwidth if they returned NXDOMAIN like they are
supposed to)
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