VeriSlim - A Company Departed
Don't you just love watching the silly things people do with to much power and too much time! We decided to delve into the mentatalty of the cheifs at VeriSlim's marketing department to see what excatly brought Site Finder to life...
Marketing 'Free Thinker': Hey I gotta idea!
Boss: Yeah!? What's that?
Marketing 'Free Thinker': Why don't we make it so every single miss typed domain name gets forwarded to our site!?
Boss: Gee kidd, I don't think the Internet community will like us abusing our power over all .com and .net domains like that!
Marketing 'Free Thinker': But we'll get 20 millions hits a day!!!!
Boss: *thud*
Later that day in the board meeting...
Slimeball 1: So it's settled, we'll call it Site Finder and say it helps people......use the Internet!
Slimeball 2: We'll be famous!! Think of the Advertising revenue! Google IN YOUR face!
Techie: Yeah but....
Slimeball 1: We can finally put a golf course in Mountian View!!
Techie: Yeah but spam, email servers?
Slimeball 1 & 2: ha ha ha ha ha!!
Techie: We'll break the intern-
Chief: Lets celebrate our new found monies by not telling anyone about it! It's such a good idea, we'll keep it secret! Not even a press release!
Techie: YOU'LL **** UP ALL THE MAIL SERVERS AND CAUSE SPAM PREVENTION SOFTWARE TO FAIL!!!
*A door slams following laughfter and lots of back patting*
So there we have it. The story of why some ISP's now allow all DNS queries to successfully resolve to something, thus causing more problems then they fix. Give it a try, If your ISP manages to give you a website for a request to http://www.imaastupidsitethatreallyshouldntexist.org.uk then you know it's time to change!
