Network Solutions hijacks customer sub-domains for ad fest

“For instance, app.gotgame.com resolves to a Network Solutions page with text links, including ‘Poker Tournaments’ and ‘Texas Holdem Games,’”

Shameless domain registrar and web hoster Network Solutions is hijacking its customers’ sub-domains, filling these pilfered pages with a sea of money-making ad links. via The Register

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Fri, April 11th, 2008

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  • In 1857, Prince Charles III of Monaco decided to introduce gambling to his Mediterranean principality to boost its finances.
  • The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.