<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hi Zhang,</div><p class="airmail_on">On 22 March 2016 at 10:07:28, 张在峰 (<a href="mailto:zhangzaifeng@360.cn">zhangzaifeng@360.cn</a>) wrote:</p> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div lang="ZH-CN" link="blue" vlink="purple" xml:lang="ZH-CN"><div></div><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">Why .ws don’t reply NXDOMAIN for non-existent domains, but return a valid A record which rdata is 64.70.19.202?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">An example:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">[zhangzaifeng@ip-10-0-0-195 ~]$ dig thisdomainshouldnotexist.ws @8.8.8.8</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3-RedHat-9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.3 <<>> thisdomainshouldnotexist.ws @8.8.8.8</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;; global options: +cmd</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;; Got answer:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28528</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;; QUESTION SECTION:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;thisdomainshouldnotexist.ws. IN A</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;; ANSWER SECTION:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">thisdomainshouldnotexist.ws. 299 IN A 64.70.19.202</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;; Query time: 312 msec</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;; WHEN: Tue Mar 22 04:38:12 2016</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61</span></p></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p><br></p><p>Well, for the same reason other registrars did it in the past (no finger pointing):</p><p>to catch “fat fingers” and try to sell domains to those guys…</p><p>Did you try opening this up in a web browser? You’d land on a page offering to buy “your own .ws domain name”.</p><p><br></p><p>Cheers,</p><p>-- </p><p>Nico</p><div></div></body></html>