It appears this was never for network discoverability, but stats instead, and a bad hostname was simply filled in:

https://discussions.apple.com/message/19852289#19852289

Perhaps for testing purposes? "What happens when the stats server isn't reachable?"

And then it got left that way, WHOOPS.

Long story short, this problem appears to have been resolved the same day it started, since it did not require a software update to fix, they just updated the web views for their store pages.

Is anyone still concretely still seeing the problem?