Network Solutions is hijacking unassigned sub domains and delivering link filled holding pages for hundreds of thousands of sites.Win Betteridge runs GotGame.com and contacted TechCrunch with the details:
For instance, app.gotgame.com
resolves to a Network Solutions page with text links, including “Poker
Tournaments”? and “Texas Holdem Games.”? The same is true of any other
unassigned sub-domain. We have spoken to customer service a few times
about fixing this problem”I don’t know if this is standard practice for a hosting company, but
this strikes me as another case of Network Solutions unreasonably
profiting at the expense of its customers.According to a search on DomainTools there are 294,438 sites on the
same Network Solutions IP address as GotGame.com. I ran a test on the
sites listed (for free) by DomainTools and every single one had the
same issue: unassigned domain names with link filled Network Solutions
holding pages.
Source: TechCrunch
Network Solutions = Greed.
Give this kind of Company’s a finger and they want the WHOLE body = Greed
The customers should put this greedy evil into the place and give them an ULTIMATUM - stop this EVIL or we will move out our domain names and websites - simple solution.
It is EASY
I got a page not found when I tried it on gotgame.com ans also on other websites on the same IP.
If you take control of your DNS, you can set these type of wildcards up yourself and point them however you like.
For the life of me, I don’t understand why someone would own extremely valuable domains and let someone else handle their DNS.