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URL rewriting (e.g., mod_rewrite) or aliases to have the web server serve the same page for two different domain names. [2] Once the URL is masked it displays the URL mask rather than the original URL/domain name. [3] Masking does not affect the content of the actual website; it only covers up the original URL/domain name.
URL hijacking is an off-domain redirect technique [3] that exploited the nature of the search engine's handling for temporary redirects. If a temporary redirect is encountered, search engines have to decide whether they assign the ranking value to the URL that initializes the redirect or to the redirect target URL.
Namecheap is an American ICANN-accredited domain name registrar [1] and web hosting company, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The company was founded in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall [ 2 ] and has since grown to become one of the largest independent domain registrars in the world, with over 10 million customers and over 17 million domains under management.
An ISP redirect page is a spoof page served by major ISPs including: Cox Communications, [1] Embarq, Verizon, Rogers, Earthlink, and various others when World Wide Web users enter an invalid DNS name. [citation needed]
A wildcard DNS record is specified by using a * as the leftmost label (part) of a domain name, e.g. *.example.com. The exact rules for when a wildcard will match are specified in RFC 1034, but the rules are neither intuitive nor clearly specified. This has resulted in incompatible implementations and unexpected results when they are used.
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Single-letter second-level domains are domains in which the second-level domain of the domain name consists of only one letter, such as x.com.In 1993, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) explicitly reserved all single-letter and single-digit second-level domains under the top-level domains com, net, and org, and grandfathered those that had already been assigned.
A drop catcher is a domain name registrar that offers the service of attempting to quickly register a given domain name for a customer if that name becomes available—that is, to "catch" a "dropped" name—when the domain name's registration expires and is then deleted, either because the registrant abandons the domain or because the ...