That's audacious. Every query for a domain under .net is now answered with an A-record from Verisign. From there it gets redirected to a Verisign page containing a search engine and web directory. Great. Probably soon there will also be a request to register a free domain cheaply at Verisign. Verisign can of course, as the operator of .net and .com, enter something like this - but only Verisign can do it. None of the alternative .net or .com registrars can do it. That's free competition on the Internet. At Advogato there's the original article.