It's a fairly regular thing. If you are a Google Chrome user, then your WWW browser has been doing much the same check, for fairly similar reasons (detecting w

It's a fairly regular thing. If you are a Google Chrome user, then your WWW browser has been doing much the same check, for fairly similar reasons (detecting whether it is running inside an environment where DNS service is being generally altered to redirect clients to a special server), for the past half decade. * https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random-domains-at-startup https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random...