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RBR850 issued 705k DNS queries in 7 days from Netgear specific domains
I recently subscribed to and setup NextDNS service to replace my two Ethernet-wired Pi-Hole Servers that can no longer successfully resolve DNS on my Netgear Orbi RBR850 network. In my NextDNS Pr...
Mine phones home a lot too. I used to have a pihole and noticed similar. Right now, I'm running an unbound DNS server on Opnsense and hitting about 250k per week for peernetwork.netgear.com. But I also have 2x netgear routers, 2 managed switches, and a netgear NAS. So a few netgear devices that can phone home. But it is excessive IMO
I was really surprised to see the internet domain ".co" At first, I thought, "silly typo". But... WAIT... how was I not aware that it has become fashionable to use ".co" (the domain abbreviation for Columbia) as shorthand for all sorts of things. This Community Forum provides something new almost every day!
".co" (the domain abbreviation for Columbia)
.co was relaunched back in 2010, as an alternative for .com There are a lot of .net and .com URLs, all managed by the same registar (Verisign).
There are financial and policy aspects to this stuff, since registars receive revenue for the URLs, and it is important to have a global base of registrars.
There were a lot of gTLDs opened up in that timeframe, but most really didn't gain much traction.
