[pavel_lishin]

> Better: enter domains which employ such tactics in your /etc/hosts file as 0.0.0.0.

As far as I can tell, blocking *.tynt.com cuts down on 99% of such gimmmicky tactics.

(I wonder why they're such a major provider; the paranoid in me wants to believe that they're using patents aggressively; the lazy person in me doesn't care.)

[dredmorbius]

What's your blocking method?

Short of setting up a nameserver and going authoritative for the domain (I've done that, I'm feeling lazy), /etc/hosts doesn't take wildcards for hostnames.

[pavel_lishin]

Hm, I must have just blocked the specific domain: tcr.tynt.com (as per instructions here: http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks)

[dredmorbius]

NB: that's a hostname, not a domainname.

[pavel_lishin]

Ack; I should have known that. Thank you.