In the past month, as a Rogers Internet customer, you’ve probably noticed that you get a search page instead of an error page when you type in an DNS that is not registered. This reminds me of the Verisign “Site Finder” practice that did a very similar thing. Verisign’s Site Finder was disabled after ICANN told them to stop.
Rogers has had this redirect since July 18th and there doesn’t seem to be an end to the practice. However, there is an alternate DNS that has been made available for people that do not want this practice to continue.
Here are the details:
altdns.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com
64.71.255.202
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