Missing kids plan for 404 pages

[Scott Sullivan]

On 10/01/2012 04:03 PM, William Muriithi wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19741350
>
> What do people have to say about this plan? Rogers does do hijack
>

Just a couple of points.

1) It's an EU project, so the missing kids reports will not sufficiently 
relevant to our region. Rogers will likely only get involved if there is 
something local that they can leverage for good PR.

2) Rogers only does DNS hijacking for non-existent or typo'd domain 
names. They do not hijack successful HTTP transfers (a 404 is still a 
successful http request, just not the answer you we're hoping for).

3) This is an opt-in that has to be configured on the hosting 
web-servers. When the are referring to ISPs in the article they mean 
Webhosting (which many last-mile ISPs do as well).

Over all, it's a nifty idea and I hope it works out.

-- 
Scott Sullivan


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