*.com and *.net = Verisign?
I am lacking words to describe this. Verisign had the bright idea to make sure that all domains with typos and any domain that has an invalid DNS record at the registry level resolves to some ‘directory’ page, which of course in turn is supposed to yield revenue for Verisign. I guess they are really desparate.
In any case, despite ICANN complaints (which of course will take a while to be addressed) this leads to DDOS attacks, ISPs blocking IPs, people modifying their DNS-servers (bind, djb/tinydns) and not to mention lawsuits. Here are some more countermeasures, in case you are interested. Also here’s a petition for you to sign.
Hey who knows, maybe Verisign might vanish completely from the face of the Internet 
Until yesterday, their MTA even accepted any email… think about all the business secrets being mailed to wrong address, but hey probably the mails were unencrypted and already read by someone else on the way, so no harm done. Maybe Verisign is even cooperating with the NSA on this, who knows. Did I say conspiracy?
Why this is so bad? Read all about it here.