[dns-operations] about NXDOMAIN under the TLD .ws

[David C Lawrence]

Nico CARTRON writes:
> Well, for the same reason other registrars did it in the past 

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_ISPs

The .ws domain was noted as being one of these wildcarding domains
back in 2003:

https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2003-September/046166.html

and here's a page that describes how to use BIND's delegation-only
zone feature for getting NXDOMAINs from .ws and several other zones.

https://www.zebulak.com/2012/12/delegation-zones-bind-9-2/