[dns-wg] Moneytizing error pages using DNS

Greetings to all,

as you might guess from the subject, this mail is about a bad DNS
trick. Our commercial people have been approached by some people in a
subsidiary company trying to sell a "moneytizing product" that takes
advantage of user error pages when serfing the web. In the subsidiary
company the solution is already deployed in their production and it also
involves cooperation with a search engine. The important thing is that
Google refused to cooperate with them and they expressed their
position against moneytizing error pages. Of course, the solution
involves NXDOMAIN remapping. 

We as technical people are against the idea. Apart from technical
implications that are difficult to explain to non-technical people, we 
would like to have some arguments supporting our position. Since a lot
of people in this list might already have come across the problem (and
some might already have implemented such a thing) I would be interested
to hear your oppinions.

Apart from respected voices expressing their opposition to such
techniques [1], I would be interested in other arguments such as legal 
implications, costs or any other arguments anyone has used in a similar
situation. By the way, there is an expired Informational rfc about the
subject [2].       

Cheers,

Kostas
  
[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1647302
[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-livingood-dns-redirect-03

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Kostas Zorbadelos				
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