High-tech companies need high-tech lawyers. The fixers at Yahoo sent a nastygram to sex.com, because going to yahoo.sex.com takes you to www.sex.com. That's not because sex.com has explicitly set up a DNS record for yahoo.sex.com — they're using "wildcard" DNS, which means that going to <anything>.sex.com will redirect you to www.sex.com (I guess that's 'cause they figure that their audience is too dumb to type three doubleyous before the word "sex"). You'd think Yahoo would have more sense that this — honestly! Link Discuss (via Meerkat)