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The OP is putting himself in the domain owner's shoes. It's a mild inconvenience for the OP, but what if the OP was a bad guy? He could have setup a site that l
by sleepydog 6y ago
The OP is putting himself in the domain owner's shoes. It's a mild inconvenience for the OP, but what if the OP was a bad guy? He could have setup a site that looked like the old one saying "unstoppable is back! Log in and update your payment info!" but stole credit card info or passwords.
The owner of the domain should have been more careful to delete their A records once they no longer owned the IP address. IPv4 addresses are finite and it's not surprising for a housing provider to recycle them.
- susam 6y agoThank you for clarifying the OP's intention. It indeed makes sense to advise the domain registrants to be careful about cleaning up stale DNS entries. Yes, if a domain points to IP addresses of servers we do not control, many bad things can happen. Here is a really interesting security disclosure related to stale DNS entries that comes to my mind: https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/subdomain-microsoft-azure.html https://thehackernews.com/2019/04/subdomain-microsoft-azure.... .