Where Everybody Knows Your Name Observing Malice-Complicit Nameservers

🎵 Sometimes you wanna go
Where everybody knows your name
And they’re always glad you came 🎵
~Theme from Cheers

Everyone should have a place to go where they’re comfortable, can pull up a comfy infrastructure barstool, and just kick back and enjoy life.

Everyone except malicious actors.

At DomainTools Investigations, we take a special interest in the comfort and caretaking of bad actors, wherever it may occur. Whether it’s a den of aspiring hackers stretching their wings, domain registrar business decisions welcoming in Russian disinformation peddlers, or even mapping out ransomware actor musical chairs, you could say we pay keen attention to the care and feeding of predatory ecosystems.

So it’s no surprise that we’re looking at DNS all the time, day, night and otherwise. Even during leap seconds.

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