As if snagging domain names you just look up wasn’t bad enough, The Web Host Industry News is reporting the Network Solutions is now monetizing subdomains of domain hosted with them even when the domain name itself is in use. The information came from TechCrunch earlier this week when Win Betteridge of GotGame went public with it, and TechCrunch discovered that:

According to a search on DomainTools there are 294,438 sites on the same Network Solutions IP address as GotGame.com.

Only one of those 294,438 sites are presumably the actual GotGame site. When we read the story, we checked the app.gotgame.com site given as the example, and the networksolutionssucks.gotgame.com that TechCrunch grabbed a screenshot of - in three days since the story broke, the site now resolves to a “page not found” - even though there’s really no purpose in 404ing pages that don’t exist and excessive 404’s can certainly hurt a Google page rank.

We really don’t have any desire to use this blog to slam competitors but, frankly, Network Solution has gone so unreasonably beyond the pale as far as corporate arrogance, here, we believe they deserve derision and mocking in as much abundance as the blogosphere can think up.

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