We obviously don't know, beyond the fact that it was communicating with a far wider group than just some Russian bank. (I wouldn't be surprised if no-one in the

We obviously don't know, beyond the fact that it was communicating with a far wider group than just some Russian bank. (I wouldn't be surprised if no-one in the Trump Organisation knew either since it was outsourced.) That was the other problem with the original story; how could someone have access to a complete list of all the DNS lookups for that server? They'd have to have access to Cendyn's DNS server's logs. The reason I count the story as false is that all the available evidence points to it being an ordinary mass mailing system: the horde of similar domains owned by Cendyn for the other hotels they do business with, the e-mails from it that have been found, the long trail of evidence showing Cendyn have been in this business for two decades and have had the Trump Organisation as a customer for 9 years, the existence of numerous DNS lookups not in the original logs offered by those pushing the story... When the only evidence is misinterpreting ordinary, boring activities, then it's a conspiracy theory. This is why it hung around for months without any of the publications that were offered it taking the story.