[dns-operations] DEV TLD?

[Francisco Obispo]

Paul,

Those are the “controlled interruption” records,

It’s a 90-day period designed to break the DNS for people actively using “DEV” as a TLD, it is configured via a wildcard on the TLD zone

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-collision-2013-12-06-en



—
Francisco Obispo
Uniregistry Inc.
On 9 Sep 2015, at 13:57, Paul Vixie wrote:

> i saw the following in DNSDB while looking for something else:
>
> ;; record times: 2014-11-12 01:32:40 .. 2015-09-06 23:31:33
> ;; count: 105
> dev.dottystylecreative.com.  NS  dev.
>
> since the gTLD handbook is explicit about what record types cannot
> reside at gTLD apexes, i checked to find out what's currently there. no
> AAAA, which is good. however, this is less good:
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> dev.                    3600    IN      A       127.0.53.53
>
> see also this, which is also not good:
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> dev.                    3600    IN      MX      10
> your-dns-needs-immediate-attention.dev.
>
> these values should not be present, however cutesy they might be. does
> anybody know the DEV folk?
>
> below, the full list of domains using "DEV" as their name server name,
> which means, causing queries to be sent to 127.0.53.53 for those domains.
>
> ;; record times: 2015-03-21 04:55:17 .. 2015-03-25 02:24:58
> ;; count: 17
> kwchae.co.kr.  NS  dev.
>
> ;; record times: 2011-02-25 20:26:37 .. 2011-07-19 05:40:18
> ;; count: 1
> avillian.com.  NS  dev.
>
> ;; record times: 2011-01-04 21:19:37 .. 2011-07-02 13:25:51
> ;; count: 27
> sciotorugby.com.  NS  dev.
>
> ;; record times: 2010-09-06 00:39:03 .. 2010-09-06 00:39:03
> ;; count: 1
> stevefazekas.com.  NS  dev.
>
> ;; record times: 2010-12-10 23:50:22 .. 2011-07-12 17:57:37
> ;; count: 60
> columbusrugby.com.  NS  dev.
>
> ;; record times: 2014-11-12 01:32:40 .. 2015-09-06 23:31:33
> ;; count: 105
> dev.dottystylecreative.com.  NS  dev.
>
> ;; record times: 2012-12-09 15:49:50 .. 2012-12-09 15:49:50
> ;; count: 1
> heritagehealthmagazine.com.  NS  dev.
>
> ;; record times: 2011-07-29 01:04:56 .. 2013-08-09 13:07:31
> ;; count: 141
> webhive.org.  NS  dev.
>
> ;; record times: 2011-02-06 23:06:47 .. 2011-02-06 23:06:47
> ;; count: 1
> transformativeworks.org.  NS  dev.
>
> -- 
> Paul Vixie
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