<div dir="ltr"><div>127.0.53.53 (and the 'cutesy' stuff you describe) is expected, as per <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-08-01-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-08-01-en</a>, no?<br><br></div><div>Basically, new (or at least possibly problematic) TLDs wildcard everything to 127.0.53.53 for some period of time to alert sysadmins of problems before the TLDs start to be used for real things.<br></div><div><br></div>~reed<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Paul Vixie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@redbarn.org" target="_blank">paul@redbarn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">i saw the following in DNSDB while looking for something else:<br>
<br>
;; record times: 2014-11-12 01:32:40 .. 2015-09-06 23:31:33<br>
;; count: 105<br>
<a href="http://dev.dottystylecreative.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">dev.dottystylecreative.com</a>. NS dev.<br>
<br>
since the gTLD handbook is explicit about what record types cannot<br>
reside at gTLD apexes, i checked to find out what's currently there. no<br>
AAAA, which is good. however, this is less good:<br>
<br>
;; ANSWER SECTION:<br>
dev. 3600 IN A 127.0.53.53<br>
<br>
see also this, which is also not good:<br>
<br>
;; ANSWER SECTION:<br>
dev. 3600 IN MX 10<br>
your-dns-needs-immediate-attention.dev.<br>
<br>
these values should not be present, however cutesy they might be. does<br>
anybody know the DEV folk?<br>
<br>
below, the full list of domains using "DEV" as their name server name,<br>
which means, causing queries to be sent to 127.0.53.53 for those domains.<br>
<br>
;; record times: 2015-03-21 04:55:17 .. 2015-03-25 02:24:58<br>
;; count: 17<br>
<a href="http://kwchae.co.kr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kwchae.co.kr</a>. NS dev.<br>
<br>
;; record times: 2011-02-25 20:26:37 .. 2011-07-19 05:40:18<br>
;; count: 1<br>
<a href="http://avillian.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">avillian.com</a>. NS dev.<br>
<br>
;; record times: 2011-01-04 21:19:37 .. 2011-07-02 13:25:51<br>
;; count: 27<br>
<a href="http://sciotorugby.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">sciotorugby.com</a>. NS dev.<br>
<br>
;; record times: 2010-09-06 00:39:03 .. 2010-09-06 00:39:03<br>
;; count: 1<br>
<a href="http://stevefazekas.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">stevefazekas.com</a>. NS dev.<br>
<br>
;; record times: 2010-12-10 23:50:22 .. 2011-07-12 17:57:37<br>
;; count: 60<br>
<a href="http://columbusrugby.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">columbusrugby.com</a>. NS dev.<br>
<br>
;; record times: 2014-11-12 01:32:40 .. 2015-09-06 23:31:33<br>
;; count: 105<br>
<a href="http://dev.dottystylecreative.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">dev.dottystylecreative.com</a>. NS dev.<br>
<br>
;; record times: 2012-12-09 15:49:50 .. 2012-12-09 15:49:50<br>
;; count: 1<br>
<a href="http://heritagehealthmagazine.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">heritagehealthmagazine.com</a>. NS dev.<br>
<br>
;; record times: 2011-07-29 01:04:56 .. 2013-08-09 13:07:31<br>
;; count: 141<br>
<a href="http://webhive.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">webhive.org</a>. NS dev.<br>
<br>
;; record times: 2011-02-06 23:06:47 .. 2011-02-06 23:06:47<br>
;; count: 1<br>
<a href="http://transformativeworks.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">transformativeworks.org</a>. NS dev.<br>
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--<br>
Paul Vixie<br>
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