Talk:Virgin Media Ireland/Archives/2013

UPC Domain Catching / ISP Domain Redirection (Search Assistance)
UPC has recently (First week of July 2010) started to catch unregistered domains and redirecting users to an ad-endorsed search results page. I believe this is called domain catching / ISP Domain Redirection / ISP Domain Catch-all Redirection, UPC call it Search Assistance (http://searching.upc.ie/upcieassistsearch/ws/results/)

See also :
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting#.22Catchall.22_typosquatting
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_DNS_record

For the non-technicals: if you try to open a non-existing site: www.verylonggnammeewithttypoos777.com you will get a search results page by UPC, instead of no answer (What you would expect). This goes against the principles of Net Neutrality and can cause software failures and insecure network configurations.

I cannot find any source mentioning it, but this may grow into a big rage by UPC users as it has happened before with Verizon in USA in 2007. (http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/11/verizon_search.html, http://www.clickz.com/3638468).

Im aware of the original research rules in Wikipedia, but once again Wikipedia has to lag behind waiting for some "reputable" source to mention the subject before we can go and change the article.

Anonymous 15 July 2010 89.124.60.94 (talk) 12:36, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 16:53, 3 December 2007 (UTC)