ICANN to prohibit nonexistent-domain redirect for new TLDs
Earlier this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published a draft of an “explanatory memorandum” for a proposed clause that prohibits the managers of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as well as IDN country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) from redirecting users when they try to access a nonexistent domain name. In 2003, Verisign, the operator of the .com and .net gTLDs, ran such a system under the name Site Finder for several weeks, until criticism from the community made them turn it off. Systems like Site Finder work by modifying DNS servers to respond with an IP address rather than an NXDOMAIN error message whenever a request arrives for a domain name that doesn’t exist.
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ICANN to prohibit nonexistent-domain redirect for new TLDs
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