Wildcard DNS Record - Registries/ISPs That Employ Wildcards

Registries/ISPs That Employ Wildcards

Several domain name registrars have, at various times, deployed wildcard records for the top-level domains, most notably VeriSign for .com and .net with its (now removed) Site Finder system. The .museum TLD also had a wildcard record which has now been removed. Top-level domains using a wildcard A record, as of March 2010, include .cg, .kr, .mp, .nu, .ph, .rw, .st, .tk and .ws.

It has also become common for ISPs to synthesize address records to redirect typos to their advertising sites, a practice called "Catchall" typosquatting, but these aren't true wild cards, but rather modified caching name servers.

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