Paco HopeMar 15

Ok peeps. Back in like 2019 I registered carecure.net. It was free and clear. I didn't buy it off a reseller or any weird squatter/parker.

I have just discovered that there's some facebook account out there using an email address at carecure.net that we have never created or used. I swear that until February of this year, email to that address should have bounced.

I made changes and now undefined email addresses land in an inbox I can see, and suddenly ordinary Facebook emails are landing in that inbox. WTF? Things like "so-and-so is a friend suggestion" and even "so-and-so commented on your post"!

Is there a way to know if this domain was registered before I got it? Someone maybe registered it, created some email addresses, etc., then let it lapse and I registered it?

I'm sure stuff like that is out there, but I'm doing the lazy web thing and asking smart people.

Show threadWXQ4987 (RSX9983)Mar 15

@paco Whois history sites like to charge, but dumping dns history shows first registration was 2002.

https://completedns.com/dns-history/

DNS History

Show threadWXQ4987 (RSX9983)Mar 15

@paco first website backed up by @internetarchive

https://web.archive.org/web/20020103043223/http://www.carecure.net/

Care Cure Herbs Ltd

Show threadPaco HopeMar 15

@WXQ4987 That explains why a Facebook account for Nandu Kumar was created.

But I’m quite convinced that emails were bouncing from March 2019 until Feb 2026. And obviously the domain went some time unregistered entirely. I’m shocked that Facebook never stopped sending bullshit emails all that time.

Thanks for pointing that out. I coulda done that. Don’t know why I didn’t.

Show threadWXQ4987 (RSX9983)

@paco they likely were bouncing and Facebook just didn’t care. There’s also the possibility depending on how the registrar was setup that it was still resolving at least some DNS. Domain parking gets weird especially when it’s a registration lapse (which is what this looks like). About 15 years ago when I worked at GoDaddy parked domains with previous MX records were just black holes because of a weird overlap of the one free page offer and the nameservers used for those were the same as the ones for parked domains (and even cash parked domains).

I’ve run into this question myself with a few domains I’ve bought- I register the domain and map a catch-all mailbox to the domain and after a few days I’ve had messages from rather large companies… one was a bank that should have locked their account when the emails were bouncing before… nope. “Your February statement is ready” 🙄

I’m not really sure what the point of everything I’ve said is… except the companies that “run” the internet are effing weird.

Mar 15 at 3:12amWeb
Show threadPaco HopeMar 15
@WXQ4987 What boggles my mind is that there is a Facebook email from just 2 weeks ago saying “so-and-so commented on your post.” Either it’s some kind of spam comment on a very old post, or this person is still using a Facebook account for which he has no access to the email—and hasn’t had access for like 7 years! The whole thing is bizarre.
Show threadWXQ4987 (RSX9983)Mar 15
@paco oh I’d bet dollars to donuts this is real traffic on their Facebook account. My money is on they used this email address to sign up for the account when they had the domain, at some point gave Facebook their phone number “for security purposes, we pinky promise!” back in 2012-2013 when that particular debacle started, and has since migrated to only using the phone number for login, completely forgetting the email address is even associated to it.