Verisign does it again
A small but significant change has been made to the Verisign controlled .com and .net servers. Queries that would (and should!) normally return NXDOMAIN, i.e. a nonexistent domain, now returns an IP-address controlled by Verisign. Common Internet technologies depend on the fact that there are such things as nonexistent domains. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard has description of what has just happened.
Verisign is not the only operator of TLDs doing this so the problem isn't really new, but perhaps the popularity of .com and .net names makes a difference. There's a petition taking place here that you should sign.
Read the description of what happened, read the petition, sign it—it might make a difference.
