GCI Hijacks Customer Browsers

Posted on December 19th, 2007 in Alaska Business, Technology | No Comments »

DNS redirections, how annoying

Apparently the fine folks at GCI aren’t making enough off their customers by selling bundled packages and burying the best Internet options deep inside the most expensive plans. They’ve gone and fiddled with the default DHCP/DNS settings that causes redirects to their branded Yahoo! search page when a user enters words in the URL path of their browser. Can they really be that desperate for a few click-through dollars? Did anyone really ask for this “feature”?

Gee thanks, I guess.

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DNS Debacle

Posted on August 15th, 2007 in Alaska Business, Technology | No Comments »

We\'re not idiots

Yet again, the ISP choices in Alaska show their lack of timeliness and professionalism. For some of you who may not know what DNS does, it’s basically the phonebook that tells your browser where to find any website by its name “websitename.com”. DNS entries are updated when people move their sites from one server to another or when a new domain name is created. Read the rest of this entry »