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by UnoriginalGuy
4856 days ago
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> I really don't understand your thinking; I am the opposite. I respect name.com for being forward about it and not acting like a politician (treating me like a child). I respect them for sharing their reasons. I think it is professional. My issue is two fold: - This kind of activity "breaks the internet" on the purest sense possible. It is against spec' for a very good reason, IT IS STUPID. Going to a null domain should give you a null reply. It breaks software and it breaks user's expectations (e.g. if you hit that page because you typo-ed the domain you might assume the domain has gone out of business or been "hacked"). - Their work-around(s) are silly. They are essentially "then use someone else" or "register every single possible sub-domain." No opt-out. They might be very good at business and marketing but they fail on every technological ground you can fail. Someone who fails that badly at understanding the internet isn't someone I want running my DNS of all things... |
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"Use someone else" is the opt-out, whether you take it to mean "use another registrar" or use "other, non-gratis DNS services.
Your other option is to use a wildcard, as I think you understand (though your "register every single possible sub-domain" is a bit misleading).
This behavior sucks, but if it's something that bothers you, you're probably the type that should be using a better DNS provider, anyways. That said, I'm a happy customer of name.com.