Perhaps you can tell me why any DNS provider would out of hand see this as 
something that is bad for an end user?

a) They are only doing it on failed lookups (different story if they were 
pushing content on valid lookups, and I think they understand this as well)

b) If you want to see a 404, you can opt out of the system

c) It's only internal to their own network, you aren't forced to use it, if 
you feel that its completely untenable, you can simply use an alternate ISP. 

It's a completely different story to say when Verisign did it and there was no 
alternative. They rightly copped a kick in the ass.

> I noticed:
> 
> http://www.crn.com.au/News/160923,bigpond-redirects-typos-to-unethical-bran
> ded-search-page.aspx
> 
> And wonder if every other DNS service provider feels the same way as
> Brett Fenton of NetRegistry.
> 
> Anand
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