A few days ago, I uncovered the fact that Apple owns a bunch of mysterious domain names, most of which are resolving to a default Linux setup page on Amazon’s cloud.
But today, after I reported that one of these mysterious domain names, trollqtkhoverlaysbynk.biz, was registered and then deleted, was just re-registered yesterday.
On January 24, 2014, Apple registered trollqtkhoverlaysbynk.biz. But, on January 25, 2014, Apple deleted trollqtkhoverlaysbynk.biz which is now available for registration.
As of the writing of this post, this domain name, trollqtkhoverlaysbynk.biz is actually not resolving to the Amazon cloud server like the other domain names have been.
Here’s the entire list of domain names that I found, these are all pointing to an Amazon cloud server. If you would like to look at the list yourself, as it seems to be changing each day, you can use Majestic SEO’s IP Neighborhood checker. There are now 26 domains:
1 hs76ksgxebfh2md.com
2 ogpwcickblflv.net
3 ocxrylnbtbornw.net
4 ntcfiniplfbresibfjnuszrnmyfisc.net
5 ncolyqpsfpsp.net
6 mrljplgyqaxegra.net
7 mnavhedhsppvt.net
8 lufdsnreeoky.net
9 lfafbwyvhggh.net
10 kldiefnymkbuidx.net
11 jaxmqwmskvpukig.net
12 ftrtoeeiihqy.net
13 fqfvtunwcsto.net
14 ennglegjttqt.net
15 crlmjuwvgmxf.net
16 bpaulaodaieq.net
17 bfrdafvnohjvue.net
18 agikugkoyord.net
19 xlrlhcvcqoopk.info
20 wiclcpmnonvco.info
21 tgquxfxndseof.info
22 pplmloracgrvn.info
23 yjdkxvdptdhvdy.in
24 stkjpcljfbsncam.com
25 royxolaihpvfef.net
26 xctexmtcuakw.net
By using Majestic SEO’s IP neighborhood checker, I was able to find, historically, that Apple has been doing this since around March 2013, and currently there are 26 domains on this same IP address. There are actually have been as many as 172 domain names that are “mysterious” domain names that Apple is doing this with.