How to seriously skew Netcraft results

[Digital Wokan]

Stuffing the ballot box is the American... er... Mafia... er...
Microsoft way of life.

Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
> I just realized how easy it would be to seriously skew Netcraft's
> webserver results (http://www.netcraft.com).  If you have your own DNS
> server, you could add a wildcard entry to point to your main site.  Then
> whenever someone types in foo.yourdomain.tld or bar.yourdomain.tld, it
> resolves to your main site.  For example, in your zone file you'd have an
> entry like this:
> 
> *      IN      CNAME   yourdomain.tld.
> 
> So next, you could go to the Netcraft site and add in your domain to be
> monitored.  You could add in 1.yourdomain.tld and 2.yourdomain.tld and on
> and on and on.  So, I'm not encouraging anyone to do this, but I just
> wanted to point out how unreliable the Netcraft "stats" really are and how
> easy it would be for someone to skew the results (if it's not happening
> already).
> ~M