> Better: enter domains which employ such tactics in your /etc/hosts file as 0.0.0.0.
As far as I can tell, blocking *.tynt.com cuts down on 99% of such gimmmicky tactics.
(I wonder why they're such a major provider; the paranoid in me wants to believe that they're using patents aggressively; the lazy person in me doesn't care.)
Short of setting up a nameserver and going authoritative for the domain (I've done that, I'm feeling lazy), /etc/hosts doesn't take wildcards for hostnames.
As far as I can tell, blocking *.tynt.com cuts down on 99% of such gimmmicky tactics.
(I wonder why they're such a major provider; the paranoid in me wants to believe that they're using patents aggressively; the lazy person in me doesn't care.)