Dean Anderson wrote: >Is it any worse than IE taking you to msn search when a domain doesn't >resolve? Or worse than Mozilla taking you to Netscape, duplicating a >Google search, and opening a sidebar (and a netscape search) you didn't >want? Yes, it is worse. Much worse. There is a fundamental difference between this defaulting happening in the DNS and happening in a client program. It is necessary that the wire protocols distinguish between existence and non-existence of resources in a standard manner (NXDOMAIN in this case) in order to give the client the choice of how to handle non-existence. If IE wishes to default to doing a web search under those circumstances, that is silly but harms no one else. What Verisign has done pre-empts that choice for everyone. -zefram -- Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>