Tiscali is hijacking mistyped URLs to serve to its customers sponsored links.
The ISP started rerouting DNS errors to a page plastered with advertising yesterday. An irate customer has started a thread on the firm's forums criticising Tiscali allowing a third party to pump ads for ringtones and dating sites.
A company rep, "Mr Tibbs" (who we last met during Tiscali's marathon email debacle earlier this year), replied that the ads (pictured) were "aimed at helping the customer on his/her journey rather than getting an error page."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/11/tiscali_dns_hijacking/
