[dns-operations] Odd combinatorial info domains?

[Andrew Latham]

Unsure of this instance but setups for urls used in popular media are often
registered by media companies. Some examples including Rick and Morty fame
fakedoors.com would be http://bgp.he.net/ip/157.166.173.157#_dns

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org>
wrote:

>
> Anyone know what these are for?
>
> There are at least 90,000 domains matching the PCRE regular expression:
>
> /^(?:awesome|amazing|immense|fabulous|super|great|excellent|wonderfull|
> marvelous|good|best|vast|incrediable|rad)-?(?:info|
> scoop|facts|wisdom|insight|knowledge)-?to-?(?:possess|
> retain|enjoy|own|keep|save|have|store|grasp|carry|cache|
> amass)-?(?:go|roll|push|flow|driv|runn|rush|bustl|mov)ing-?
> (?:ahead|forth|forward|onward)\.info$/
>
> That is, with optional hyphens, a concatenation of one word from each of
> the below:
>
>         1. awesome|amazing|immense|fabulous|super|great|
> excellent|wonderfull|marvelous|good|best|vast|incrediable|rad
>         2. info|scoop|facts|wisdom|insight|knowledge
>         3. to
>         4. possess|retain|enjoy|own|keep|save|have|store|grasp|carry|
> cache|amass
>         5. going|rolling|pushing|flowing|driving|running|rushing|
> bustling|moving
>         6. ahead|forth|forward|onward
>
> Anyone know why the registrant might be doing this?
>
> If every possible combination were registered, it would be a total of
> (14 x 6 x 12 x 9 x 4 x 2^5) = 1,161,216 domains.  I've only run across
> ~90k, but that could just be lack of effort to try them all.
>
> Registration data for one of the domains:
>
> Domain Name: AMAZING-FACTS-TO-CACHERUNNING-FORTH.INFO
> Registry Domain ID: D503300000017006529-LRMS
> Registrar WHOIS Server:
> Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
> Updated Date: 2016-10-01T20:38:44Z
> Creation Date: 2016-08-02T15:26:03Z
> Registry Expiry Date: 2017-08-02T15:26:03Z
> Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
> Registrar IANA ID: 146
> Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
> Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
> Domain Status: ok https://icann.org/epp#ok
> Registry Registrant ID: CR249086059
> Registrant Name: Your Employment
> Registrant Organization: YourEmployment
> Registrant Street: 27762 Antonio Pkwy
> Registrant Street: L1-#206
> Registrant City: Ladera Ranch
> Registrant State/Province: California
> Registrant Postal Code: 92694
> Registrant Country: US
> Registrant Phone: +1.9495351227
> Registrant Phone Ext:
> Registrant Fax:
> Registrant Fax Ext:
> Registrant Email: contact at youremploymentagency.com
>
> --
>         Viktor.
>
>
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