HOWTO Disable the Verizon FiOS Domain Name Ad Redirect
Verizon FiOS annoyingly redirects non-existent domain names to ads. You can opt out, but it’s hard, and their own instructions are wrong. I wrote HOWTO Disable the Verizon FiOS Domain Name Ad Redirect to offer a clear (still too complicated) solution.
Even with opt out available, the service still scuzzy, and Verisign got ripped to shreds when they tried to pull this kind of stunt for all of .com and .net.
Anyway, the HOWTO.