VeriSign now resolves all unused .com and .net domain names to point to VeriSign. This is a terrible idea from a technological standpoint alone: many systems depend on non-existent domain names not resolving to catch errors. The next time you make a typo in a domain name when sending someone email, you're relying on VeriSign's servers to send you an error message, when you ought to be able to rely on your mail client noticing that the domain name doesn't exist. What a terrible abuse of the public trust. As if the squatters that register typos to put up generic "portal" pages weren't bad enough.