Kirya [.net]

I have just discovered that Wanadoo has recently set up wild card records for non-existing domain names on their DNS servers. This means that when a users wants to visit a non-existing website (eg “nonexistingdomainname.com”, she is automatically redirected to “www.aide-a-la-navigation.net”.

I have sent them an e-mail, nut I really doubt that they will answer.

This can be avoided by changing DNS servers to 193.252.19.3 and 193.252.19.4 instead of 80.10.246.1 and 80.10.246.2!

Is this a legal practice?!

Update: As of 06/02, it seems that Wanadoo changed their mind, and deactivated this redirection. Note that I haven’t (yet?) received any answer from Wanadoo.

Update: As of 12/02, it is now worse than before: instead of a standard error message, Wanadoo now proposes sponsored links based on the keywords of the non-existing domain! I cannot accept that.