UKNM: NetNames Forwarding

[Sam Michel]

Out of interest...a friend of mine registered a domain name with NetNames

and used their systems to forward web browsers onto to some free web space

where he's going to host a couple of pages.


He checked the code and noticed that when viewing the page source, a

frameset appeared where there hadn't been any before. So, basically

NetNames have added a zero sized frame to my friend's website, presumably

to track how many times this page is being accessed. It struck me as very

big brother ...and well, it's seems questionable to me, to track this

information.


On top of that, it automatically adds a framset to a page, which doesn't

need one, which brings a host of compatibility issues into play.


This strike anyone else as odd? I can understand wishing to track this type

of information for marketing and demographic purposes, but this seems to

be taking things a long way. Anyone know if other domain name 

companies with this service use a similar technique?


Anyone from NetNames care to comment?



Toodle Pip


Sam

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