Re: UKNM: NetNames Forwarding

[Jamie Unwin]

Sam, I think you'll find this is how they forward your friends domain to his site, it is a technique known as "cloaking", it's the only way you can redirect www.acme.com to acmetrading567.dodgyhosting.co.uk/acemspares.


If your friend has a static IP for his site then Netnames should really be relying on DNS to handle the forwardingbut maybe they have decided to use "cloaking" for all web site forwarding ?


I don't think their is any Big Brother activity going on though...


jamie


>Out of interest...a friend of mine registered a domain name with NetNames

>and used their systems to forward web browsers onto to some free web space

>where he's going to host a couple of pages.

>

>He checked the code and noticed that when viewing the page source, a

>frameset appeared where there hadn't been any before. So, basically

>NetNames have added a zero sized frame to my friend's website, presumably

>to track how many times this page is being accessed. It struck me as very

>big brother ...and well, it's seems questionable to me, to track this

>information.

>

>On top of that, it automatically adds a framset to a page, which doesn't

>need one, which brings a host of compatibility issues into play.

>

>This strike anyone else as odd? I can understand wishing to track this type

>of information for marketing and demographic purposes, but this seems to

>be taking things a long way. Anyone know if other domain name 

>companies with this service use a similar technique?

>

>Anyone from NetNames care to comment?

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