Network Solutions hijacks customer sub-domains for ad fest
Found on The Register on Thursday, 10 April 2008
Shameless domain registrar and web hoster Network Solutions is hijacking its customers' sub-domains, filling these pilfered pages with a sea of money-making ad links.
Betteridge hosts GotGame with "NetSol," and somewhere along the way, he realized that his unused GotGame sub-domains resolved to ad-infested "parking" pages.
Yes, you can opt out this questionable program. But first you have to know about it. The EULA housing the above paragraph is 59,000 words long.
Of course, this isn't nearly as bad the company's domain front running scam. Which it continues to call a "security measure."
Just get a decent registrar and hoster. It's not that complicated to move a domain and the webspace around these days. Any slightly intelligent provider should be able to do this.