First I used a proxy method (urlquery or a lab, etc.) to navigate to the url and sure enough there is even a nice explanation explaining that it's a domain name used for cookie/customer tracking of users of the Answers.com website.
Being in security, I naturally don't trust what I see ... so I wanted to confirm this (because any Joe Blow could've put up this splash page claiming to be affiliated with Answers.com). So I navigated to Answers.com in chrome and ran developer tools.
In developer tools under Network I looked, and sure enough there is a script call to www.dsply.com so unless somebody has hacked Answers.com or my browser , it's safe for me to assume that www.dsply.com is a legit domain used by Answers.com to track it's users. Some sorta master tracking cookie.
Now whether you choose to block this cookie or not is more of a privacy issue, but I don't believe it's a security risk/hacked domain or anything like that. Thus you can move on and look at something else now :-)
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