about ten years ago, apple added a stray record to the apple.com zone .... a DNAME[1] record ....... that pointed to apple.com 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

about ten years ago, apple added a stray record to the apple.com zone .... a DNAME[1] record ....... that pointed to apple.com 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNAME_record https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNAME_record this had some pretty disastrous results[2] 2: https://mashable.com/archive/apple-tunes-app-store-icloud-problems https://mashable.com/archive/apple-tunes-app-store-icloud-pr... bad things happen everywhere