Network Solutions Makes Another Evil Move
Not content with the profits it makes from front running, Network Solutions has decided to scam people in another way: it is now hijacking unassigned sub-domains.
A subdomain is basically a domain built on a domain - so, for instance, some sites might add a blog at blog.domain.com. An unassigned subdomain is a subdomain that hasn't been set up and there will be an infinite number of them - e.g. NetworkSolutionsSucks.DomainBits.com, EvilNetworkSolutions.DomainBits.com, etc. What Network Solutions is doing is presenting a parking page any time someone goes to a nonexistent subdomain of a website hosted with them.
If these pages ended up getting indexed in Google or any of the other major search engines, it could cause some serious trouble for the website owners. Even if they don't get indexed - how would you like your host to be adding pages to your website, without letting you know?
Network Solutions Sucks - avoid them like the plague!
April 8th, 2008 at 9:49 pm GREAT post. This kind of Company's would not exist if they had NO customers so some people must LOVE Netwotk Solutions
April 8th, 2008 at 9:59 pm A lot of it's inertia - people have their domains and hosting there and can't be bothered to move it. Also, they have a lot of corporate business, and many of those corporations will be very conservative about whom they do business with.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:02 pm WHAT?! You're freakin' kidding me..... This is absolutely ridiculous
April 8th, 2008 at 10:04 pm I wish you were right, Sammy :-(
April 9th, 2008 at 6:31 am [...] @ Domain Bits ; Tech [...]
April 9th, 2008 at 7:07 am I tried http://hyhyhyhhyhdd.domainbits.com/ and it just says problem loading page.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:51 am I'm not hosted at Network Solutions, thankfully.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:32 am Just wild card your subdomain so anything before say like "anything.domainbits.com" will forward to anything you want. Just do a Mod_Rewrite in your .htaccess file... John http://unplain.com
April 9th, 2008 at 11:20 am Thanks John - I could forward it to IdiotU.com :D
April 9th, 2008 at 11:31 am :O lol
April 9th, 2008 at 2:06 pm I just get "page not found". Can anyone replicate this claim?
April 10th, 2008 at 1:10 pm @Dany - that's what I'm getting now too. Network Solutions must have changed things pretty quickly!