one other thing i would suggest is to set up a catch-all email for the domain and see what gets sent to it, sometimes you can access accounts associated with the domain, socials etc
Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
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Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#12I’ll add: and if you lease a VPS, check out its address reputation and reverse DNS record.
How?
Using dig:
$>dig yourdomain.tld
1.2.3.4
$>dig -x 1.2.3.4
evilcorp.com
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#13I’ll add: and if you lease a VPS, check out its address reputation and reverse DNS record.
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#14I’ll add: and if you lease a VPS, check out its address reputation and reverse DNS record.
How?
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#15> Ideally, search engine algorithms would give new domain owners a fresh start. Sadly, I think this would be instantly gamed by abusers. They would release the domain name and attempt to register as a new owner or start repeatedly doing handoffs. It's difficult to tell who the owner is changing between and whether or not the new one is a better actor than the former.
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#16> Ideally, search engine algorithms would give new domain owners a fresh start. Sadly, I think this would be instantly gamed by abusers. They would release the domain name and attempt to register as a new owner or start repeatedly doing handoffs. It's difficult to tell who the owner is changing between and whether or not the new one is a better actor than the former.
Google product manager interview question - Write some code with an LLM tool that leverages a LLM to determine if the new owner of a domain is doing (a) same dodgy thing as prior owner that got flagged (b) different dodgy thing as prior owner but should be flagged (c) something completely innocuous (d) needs further review.
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google product manager interview question - Write some code with an LLM tool that leverages a LLM to determine if the new owner of a domain is doing (a) same dodgy thing as prior owner that got flagged (b) different dodgy thing as prior owner but should be flagged (c) something completely innocuous (d) needs further review.
Please don't give Google ideas for more ways they can have an algorithm arbitrarily screw you over with no recourse, they're listening.
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#18I purchased a valuable premium domain to host a personal art collection (of anime cels). For some bizarre reason, the site was inaccessible from my work computer and it was de-listed from Google even if I typed the url itself into search.
I hired a square space specialist to figure out why, to no avail. I then begged our company’s CISO to investigate and it turns out we had some firewall setting on UniFi that blocked the domain because it appeared on a list. Once I checked way back, it turns out that it was as an anime porn aggregator years back. I personally reached out to all the web filters out there (Google, Symantec, bing) and one by one filed tickets for them to mark it as art instead of pornography and it worked. I am now properly crawled on Google but still MIA on Bing, search console is giving me some BS error that’s incomprehensible, typical of MSFT.
Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#19Re: Before you buy a domain name, first check to see if it's haunted
#20> Ideally, search engine algorithms would give new domain owners a fresh start. Sadly, I think this would be instantly gamed by abusers. They would release the domain name and attempt to register as a new owner or start repeatedly doing handoffs. It's difficult to tell who the owner is changing between and whether or not the new one is a better actor than the former.