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Someone needs to learn about RFC 2606:

> In one evaluation, the fictional target company chosen by our evaluation partner shared a name with an active website domain name

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2606/

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Microsoft screwing up the DNS on one of the reserved domains [0] was not awesome.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/odd-a...

Haha yes that was a very silly mistake on their part; they should at least have registered the domain they were targeting; that would actually have been a good canary - any real accesses should set off an alarm. While I knew of .example I didn't know .test - hmm that's quite nice!

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