There’s been a lot of talk EarthLink’s new handling of dead domains lately. In this article, the author Sean Carton complaines that “In a bid to increase ad revenues, Earthlink hijacked the DNS system, which may cause problems for a whole slew of applications. ” He makes some good points about how this could affect FTP, e-mail, etc.

read EarthLink opinion article | digg story

Note: Dave Coustan recently posted on Earthling some info on the opt out mechanism.