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After writing my first post describing Road Runner’s annoying practice of redirecting all invalid DNS requests to their own advertising laden search page I opted out. I figured that would be the end of it.

I was wrong.

As of this morning Road Runner ha re-enabled the DNS redirecting again.

How stupid are they? At least now I know how much they actually actually care about their user’s settings.

Road Runer, if you’re reading this. Stop turning this feature on. It’s absolute rubbish and I really don’t want it. When I opt-out of a service this does NOT mean you should re-enable it a few months later and hope I won’t notice.

Advertisement filled domain search sites, once the domain of shady domain squatters, have shown up on Road Runner High Speed Internet for URLs of invalid domains.

Earlier this evening I decided to visit the website for a paint ball field in Syracuse NY. Looking for their address I tried to visit their site http://www.headrush.com. Unfortunately I mistyped and ended up at http://www.headrus.com. I was greeted with the site pictured below.

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