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[ NNSquad ] Karoo is DNS hijacking
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/25/kraoo_nds_typo_hjakin/ Something fishy about DNS hijacking By Chris Williams → More by this author Published Tuesday 25th March 2008 11:33 GMT Improve IT Culture and employee satisfaction in your business - Sign up for the latest RegCast here Hull's broadband monopoly, Karoo, has joined the ranks of Verisign, Tiscali and Orange in redirecting net users' mistyped URLs to pages displaying advertising. Karoo, part of the K-Com group, is doing the hijacking in partnership with Ask.com. Instead of seeing a plain error, customers are seeing their spelling mistakes pumped into the Ask search engine. In exchange, K-Com gets a cut of advertising revenues from the results. The firm's technical support workers are telling customers that the "service" is only a trial. If they query the redirects, unhappy business and consumer users are told they can opt-out and given alternative DNS server details. The trial began on 17 March. It intercepts domain queries that are non-existent in Karoo's own cache. snip