Re:David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS
by Retric on Thursday December 03, 2009 @06:34PM
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Oddly enough this relates to all the domain squatters out there. If you misstype something into the search bar you don't know what you get, but by clicking on the first link in Google you are taken the to the "reputable" site.
So a reputable DNS service that did this automatically would be a direct threat to Google.
Re:David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS
by pyre on Thursday December 03, 2009 @08:50PM
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You're also thinking too web-centric. DNS is not only used by web-surfers to construct URLs in their browsers. Things that make sense from a 'how to I find this webpage' sense do not make sense from a 'how does my non-web client contact the non-http server' sense.
Re:David Ulevitch: Some thoughts on Google DNS
by tptacek on Thursday December 03, 2009 @06:52PM
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IT ALSO BREAKS THE DNS.
E.g., if they want to get to Dell's website, rather than typing "dell.com" into the URL field, they type "dell" or "dell computer" into the search box and then click on the first result.