Comments on: Road Runner Hijacks Mispelled URLs

By: SnowBall

SnowBall — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:13:40 +0000

People actually take advantage of mis-entered URLs? This is all new to me, but makes sense. When I mis-enter Facebook, it usually takes me to an actual page, and not a “page cannot be found” page. Interesting. I’m assuming people make money off of this.

By: JR

JR — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:41:57 +0000

404 PAGE NOT FOUND

is the only appropriate answer
to malformed URL’s under any
condition.

It informs you to check your entry
all else is AOL.

By: Patience

Patience — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:35:14 +0000

I cannot styand sites that highjakc mis-entered URLs. Sure, they are open territory for anyone, but sometimes, when a URL is mis-entered it takes my browser takes me somewhere I really don’t want to go. Its annoying. I wish it would just say that said URL does not exist or can’t be found.

By: dk

dk — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:22:47 +0000

Jim,
This was a brand new thing that Road Runner started doing.

To make sure I understand you, are you referring to when I am at my P.C. and I send a command out to the internet to find a site? as opposed to someone looking on my site for one of my pages?

Just want to make sure I understand you.

Either way, this action from Time Warner Cable just started two nights ago, and is new.

Thanks for the wisdom!
dk

By: Jim Jones

Jim Jones — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:07:29 +0000

This is caused by the Roadrunner DNS server. If the domain you enter is invalid it sends you to their “spam” page instead of an error page. I suggest you change your DNS server to http://www.opendns.com/ . OpenDNS would recognize “google.co” & “nike.ne” as being typos and would send you to the correct site.