DNS question (was from: Melissa Doherty)

[Peter Pentchev]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:49:19PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Wednesday, May 27, 2015 a las 12:08:30PM +0200, Melissa Doherty escribió:
> 
> > Hello freebsd
> > 
> > http://xn-----6kcctqgnirnid3a4m.xn--p1ai/just.php?please=chbp7ashve785qhk
> 
> apart from the SPAM or phishing attack, how the above DNS is
> resolvable:
> 
> $ host 'xn-----6kcctqgnirnid3a4m.xn--p1ai'
> xn-----6kcctqgnirnid3a4m.xn--p1ai has address 92.53.114.211
> xn-----6kcctqgnirnid3a4m.xn--p1ai has IPv6 address
> 2a03:6f00:1::5c35:72d3
> xn-----6kcctqgnirnid3a4m.xn--p1ai mail is handled by 10 mx2.timeweb.ru.
> xn-----6kcctqgnirnid3a4m.xn--p1ai mail is handled by 10 mx1.timeweb.ru.
> 
> I have never seen such type of DNS name;

This is an IDN - internationalized domain name:

  https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/idn-2012-02-25-en

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

  http://network-tools.com/idn-convert.asp

  https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::IDN::Encode

This particular domain's name is in Russian; it translates to something
like "sending packages from home DOT Russian Federation".

G'luck,
Peter

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