<div dir="ltr">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 <a href="http://fakedoors.com">fakedoors.com</a> would be <a href="http://bgp.he.net/ip/157.166.173.157#_dns">http://bgp.he.net/ip/157.166.173.157#_dns</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ietf-dane@dukhovni.org" target="_blank">ietf-dane@dukhovni.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Anyone know what these are for?<br>
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There are at least 90,000 domains matching the PCRE regular expression:<br>
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/^(?:awesome|amazing|immense|<wbr>fabulous|super|great|<wbr>excellent|wonderfull|<wbr>marvelous|good|best|vast|<wbr>incrediable|rad)-?(?:info|<wbr>scoop|facts|wisdom|insight|<wbr>knowledge)-?to-?(?:possess|<wbr>retain|enjoy|own|keep|save|<wbr>have|store|grasp|carry|cache|<wbr>amass)-?(?:go|roll|push|flow|<wbr>driv|runn|rush|bustl|mov)ing-?<wbr>(?:ahead|forth|forward|onward)<wbr>\.info$/<br>
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That is, with optional hyphens, a concatenation of one word from each of the below:<br>
<br>
1. awesome|amazing|immense|<wbr>fabulous|super|great|<wbr>excellent|wonderfull|<wbr>marvelous|good|best|vast|<wbr>incrediable|rad<br>
2. info|scoop|facts|wisdom|<wbr>insight|knowledge<br>
3. to<br>
4. possess|retain|enjoy|own|keep|<wbr>save|have|store|grasp|carry|<wbr>cache|amass<br>
5. going|rolling|pushing|flowing|<wbr>driving|running|rushing|<wbr>bustling|moving<br>
6. ahead|forth|forward|onward<br>
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Anyone know why the registrant might be doing this?<br>
<br>
If every possible combination were registered, it would be a total of<br>
(14 x 6 x 12 x 9 x 4 x 2^5) = 1,161,216 domains. I've only run across<br>
~90k, but that could just be lack of effort to try them all.<br>
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Registration data for one of the domains:<br>
<br>
Domain Name: <a href="http://AMAZING-FACTS-TO-CACHERUNNING-FORTH.INFO" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">AMAZING-FACTS-TO-CACHERUNNING-<wbr>FORTH.INFO</a><br>
Registry Domain ID: D503300000017006529-LRMS<br>
Registrar WHOIS Server:<br>
Registrar URL: <a href="http://www.godaddy.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.godaddy.com</a><br>
Updated Date: 2016-10-01T20:38:44Z<br>
Creation Date: 2016-08-02T15:26:03Z<br>
Registry Expiry Date: 2017-08-02T15:26:03Z<br>
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC<br>
Registrar IANA ID: 146<br>
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:<br>
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:<br>
Domain Status: ok <a href="https://icann.org/epp#ok" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://icann.org/epp#ok</a><br>
Registry Registrant ID: CR249086059<br>
Registrant Name: Your Employment<br>
Registrant Organization: YourEmployment<br>
Registrant Street: 27762 Antonio Pkwy<br>
Registrant Street: L1-#206<br>
Registrant City: Ladera Ranch<br>
Registrant State/Province: California<br>
Registrant Postal Code: 92694<br>
Registrant Country: US<br>
Registrant Phone: <a href="tel:%2B1.9495351227" value="+19495351227">+1.9495351227</a><br>
Registrant Phone Ext:<br>
Registrant Fax:<br>
Registrant Fax Ext:<br>
Registrant Email: <a href="mailto:contact@youremploymentagency.com">contact@youremploymentagency.<wbr>com</a><br>
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--<br>
Viktor.<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">- Andrew "lathama" Latham <a href="mailto:lathama@gmail.com" target="_blank">lathama@gmail.com</a> <a href="http://lathama.org" target="_blank">http://lathama.org</a> -</div></div>
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