@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.

@paco first website backed up by @internetarchive

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

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

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

@GossiTheDog I thought they had already tanked to be honest. Everytime I hear their name I think of that weird super early Twitter Nokia Lumia Gossip Girl era and think “must be dead like the rest of it.”

XOXO