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by alepper 4818 days ago
FWIW, I haven't noticed this on any of BT, Sky or Virgin.
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NXDOMAIN is hijacked on Virgin Media for sure, unless you are using some other DNS. I haven't noticed them injecting ads though.
Not to be needlessly contrarian, but this doesn't appear to be the case - at least for me, for any of the domains I tried:

>nslookup notarealdomainthatshouldresolve.co.uk Server: cache1.service.virginmedia.net Address: 194.168.4.100

* cache1.service.virginmedia.net can't find notarealdomainthatshouldresolve.co.uk: Non-existent domain

NXDOMAIN used to be hijacked by Virgin Media. But it certainly is not any more, unless their DNS service changes significantly across the country.