Dear Telekom

I am not at all amused about your new "feature" called "Navigationshilfe" that messes up DNS lookups by returning the address of a search page whenever I enter a domain name that does not exist!

Obvious problems:
- this breaks ALL other protocols, for example:

ping weriuzweiur.de
Pinging weriuzweiur.de [80.156.86.78] with 32 bytes of data:

Hint: weriuzweiur.de does not exist. The correct response should be

Ping request could not find host weriuzweiur.de. Please check the name and try again.

- with web links, it provides your search page with any subdomains or parameters I may have entered in my URL. This is an invasion into my online privacy.

Example (just happened to me): my company is using an internal domain that does not exist in the outside world. I inadvertently clicked on a bookmark while not having the company VPN running. Now I need to change my internal company password because it was included with the book mark, so now Telekom knows the password.

Yes, I know I can disable this "Feature" in your customer service center.

I should not have to do work just to make my internet connection work as specified in the relevant RFCs.

Thank you.