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16 Oct 2008 2:22 AM

George Hester

How can it be if a person types a mishmash of alpha characters in the
address bar of a browser mimicing say a web address so that it has a chance
to succeed but doesn't to get a error (site not found) but often times I
find that addresses which I have saved in my Favories no longer work, and in
fact get redirected to my ISPs domain's index.php. What is that? Why
wouldn't that happen in the first case also? I can type in a bogus web
address in the address bar of my browser and get a legitimate error. If the
other website was in fact gone why wouldn't I also get a legitimate error
for that non-working Favorites?

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George Hester
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16 Oct 2008 12:29 PM

Bob I

Depends entirely on someone having registered the "nearly correct"
domain name.

George Hester wrote:

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> How can it be if a person types a mishmash of alpha characters in the
> address bar of a browser mimicing say a web address so that it has a chance
> to succeed but doesn't to get a error (site not found) but often times I
> find that addresses which I have saved in my Favories no longer work, and in
> fact get redirected to my ISPs domain's index.php. What is that? Why
> wouldn't that happen in the first case also? I can type in a bogus web
> address in the address bar of my browser and get a legitimate error. If the
> other website was in fact gone why wouldn't I also get a legitimate error
> for that non-working Favorites?
>
> --
> George Hester
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>
>

21 Oct 2008 8:47 PM

George Hester

Yeah you would think so. But I don't know. I got a a spoof site and again
when I clicked on it, I went to a server at my ISP. I doubt if you clickerd
it you would go to my ISP's server. Don't you think that's kind of weird?
Here it is:

http://www.wolfen.co.kr

Here you go. This redirects to

http://ww23.rr.com

which you would not be able to access because you are not a customer of Time
Warner. Don't you think that is odd?

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George Hester
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"Bob I" <bire***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Depends entirely on someone having registered the "nearly correct"
> domain name.
>
> George Hester wrote:
>
> > How can it be if a person types a mishmash of alpha characters in the
> > address bar of a browser mimicing say a web address so that it has a
chance
> > to succeed but doesn't to get a error (site not found) but often times I
> > find that addresses which I have saved in my Favories no longer work,
and in
> > fact get redirected to my ISPs domain's index.php. What is that? Why
> > wouldn't that happen in the first case also? I can type in a bogus web
> > address in the address bar of my browser and get a legitimate error. If
the
> > other website was in fact gone why wouldn't I also get a legitimate
error
> > for that non-working Favorites?
> >
> > --
> > George Hester
> > _________________________________
> >
> >
>