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Comment by sandworm101 | Hacker News Reader

Ok, yes. I clicked on the OP's "your-carrier-is-hijacking-dns.com" link. I was wonder how it would react to my using OpenDNS. Good joke. Not the results I was expecting.

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I think something is up with the site, see URL of the Rickroll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ#sup_Charge,_got_...

My bad for not scanning the entire url. That message was lost on my tiny address bar. But it does look like a legit message to charge.

Someone just registered the domain today as, I suspect, a practical joke:

   Domain Name: YOUR-CARRIER-IS-HIJACKING-DNS.COM
   Registrar: GOOGLE INC.
   Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 895
   Whois Server: whois.rrpproxy.net
   Referral URL: http://domains.google.com
   Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C1.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
   Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C2.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
   Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C3.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
   Name Server: NS-CLOUD-C4.GOOGLEDOMAINS.COM
   Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
   Updated Date: 22-may-2016
   Creation Date: 22-may-2016
   Expiration Date: 22-may-2017

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