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Does someone know what this domain actually is? EDIT: After looking explicitly for it I found www.iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com.
by jstoja 10y ago
Does someone know what this domain actually is?
EDIT: After looking explicitly for it I found www.iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com.
- adolph 10y agoIs that a Welsh company?
- unit91 10y ago...says adolph. The Germans, however, use much shorter terms like "Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften". :-)
- lionyo 10y agoRechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften German Noun - insurance company which provides legal protection
- Scoundreller 10y agoMy guess was going to be left-handed bricklayers that wear blue hats. Close.
- movedx 10y ago"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" - town in Wales. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
- ptaipale 10y agoOff-topic, but I think that traditionally, the longest official word in German was "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz", the name for a law about testing and labeling of beef, now repealed. This word (63 letters) was of course not in everyday use by most people, but it was actually in the law.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoYou can tell it's _not_ Cymraeg because of the "j"s. Despite Jones being the stereotypical name for people in Wales, the old Welsh language, Cymraeg, doesn't have a J, nor have Z, K, V, X (IIRC). Jones is an English loanword, brought over apparently with the Norman conquest (though derived from Hebrew). The modern language of Wales is of course British English with a ~100% use rate; Cymraeg still has an approx 8% (but falling) of the population who say when surveyed that they can speak it fluently, however. Yeah, I'm terrible at parties.
- ezequiel-garzon 10y agoThe registered domain gwea.com: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/stolen-nsa-tech-shuts-down-hospitals http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/stolen-nsa-... Edit: I'm not so sure now. The whois record seems to suggest recent activity: Domain Name: GWEA.COM Registrar: 22NET, INC. Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1555 Whois Server: whois.22.cn Referral URL: http://www.22.cn Name Server: PK3.22.CN Name Server: PK4.22.CN Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Updated Date: 18-mar-2017 Creation Date: 17-mar-1999 Expiration Date: 17-mar-2018
- eddyg 10y agoends with "gwea.com". Big difference.
- ezequiel-garzon 10y agoAt the risk of losing more karma... isn't the domain registered to stop this gwea.com itself? The hacker, though, didn’t register the gwea.com domain name. On Friday morning, a 22-year-old UK security researcher known online as MalwareTech noticed the address in WannaCry’s code and found that it was still available. “I saw it wasn’t registered and thought, ‘I think I’ll have that,’” he says. He purchased it at NameCheap.com for $10.69, and [...] [1] If it is, it seems to contradict the whois record. [1]: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/stolen-nsa-tech-shuts-down-hospitals http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/stolen-nsa-...
- detaro 10y agoThe domain is not gwea.com, it ends in gwea.com. Two paragraphs above your quote in the article: > a dot-com address consisting of a long string of gobbledygook letters and numbers ending in “gwea.com” jstoja mentions it above: iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com
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- imsodrunklol 10y agoSay that 5 times fast, I dare you.
- Scoundreller 10y agoWill visiting that URL cause my IP to "hit" on https://intel.malwaretech.com/WannaCrypt.html https://intel.malwaretech.com/WannaCrypt.html now? The map is populating much faster now, maybe they integrated it with the URL?