Does someone know what this domain actually is?
EDIT: After looking explicitly for it I found www.iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com.
EDIT: After looking explicitly for it I found www.iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com.
- insurance company which provides legal protection
Despite Jones being the stereotypical name for people in Wales, the old Welsh language, Cymraeg, doesn't have a J, nor have Z, K, V, X (IIRC). Jones is an English loanword, brought over apparently with the Norman conquest (though derived from Hebrew).
The modern language of Wales is of course British English with a ~100% use rate; Cymraeg still has an approx 8% (but falling) of the population who say when surveyed that they can speak it fluently, however.
Yeah, I'm terrible at parties.
The map is populating much faster now, maybe they integrated it with the URL?
Edit: I'm not so sure now. The whois record seems to suggest recent activity:
Domain Name: GWEA.COM
Registrar: 22NET, INC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1555
Whois Server: whois.22.cn
Referral URL: http://www.22.cn
Name Server: PK3.22.CN
Name Server: PK4.22.CN
Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 18-mar-2017
Creation Date: 17-mar-1999
Expiration Date: 17-mar-2018The hacker, though, didn’t register the gwea.com domain name. On Friday morning, a 22-year-old UK security researcher known online as MalwareTech noticed the address in WannaCry’s code and found that it was still available. “I saw it wasn’t registered and thought, ‘I think I’ll have that,’” he says. He purchased it at NameCheap.com for $10.69, and [...] [1]
If it is, it seems to contradict the whois record.
[1]: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/stolen-nsa-...
> a dot-com address consisting of a long string of gobbledygook letters and numbers ending in “gwea.com”
jstoja mentions it above: iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com