ardentstudios.com

Observed Aug 11, 2026, 02:19 UTC (6d ago). Every field below was attested with an Ed25519 signature at scan time.

This reading of ardentstudios.com was taken 6d ago

ardentstudios.com is on the survey sweep, which works its way across the whole catalog rather than returning to one name on a schedule. Putting ardentstudios.com under watch moves it to the fast lane, where DomainDrift re-checks it about every 5 minutes and signs each reading, so a change becomes a dated event within minutes instead of waiting for the sweep to come round.

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Up right now
Runs onCloudflare
Email byGoogle Workspace
Secured byGoogle Trust Services
Registered toArdent Studios
Registered withSquarespace Domains II LLC
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EVIDENCE OF WILDCARD DNSobserved 2026-08-16 22:22 UTC

DomainDrift asked this domain for a TXT record at a name nobody registers, and got an answer back. A domain that answers a name that was never created is answering names in general, and that is wildcard DNS.

Wildcard DNS clusters around domain parking, dynamic DNS and catch-all hosting. It is also a real attack surface: if every invented hostname resolves, then a hostname an attacker invents resolves too, which is the ground state for subdomain takeover and for phishing hosted under a name that looks legitimate.

This is evidence of wildcard behaviour, not a proven fact. It rests on one control name: a domain could legitimately serve a TXT record at exactly that name for an unrelated reason, and a wildcard that answers address records but not TXT records would not be caught here at all. What this reading is and is not.

INFRASTRUCTURE MAPwhat ardentstudios.com actually stands on - every host below is a signed observation
ardentstudios.com
A / AAAA
162.159.135.42
Cloudflareserves the site
NS
ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.comns-cloud-e2.googledomains.comns-cloud-e1.googledomains.comns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com
googledomains.comanswers its DNS
MX
aspmx.l.google.comalt4.aspmx.l.google.comalt2.aspmx.l.google.comalt1.aspmx.l.google.com+1 more
Google Workspacereceives its email
TLS
ardentstudios.com
Google Trust Servicesissued its certificate

DNS Records

A 1

  • 162.159.135.42

MX 5

  • 1aspmx.l.google.com
  • 10alt4.aspmx.l.google.com
  • 5alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
  • 5alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
  • 10alt3.aspmx.l.google.com

TXT 1

  • v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all

NS 4

  • ns-cloud-e3.googledomains.com
  • ns-cloud-e2.googledomains.com
  • ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com
  • ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com

SOA 1

  • ns-cloud-e1.googledomains.com cloud-dns-hostmaster.google.com

MCP_RECORDS 1

  • v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all

DMARC_RECORDS 1

  • v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:dmarc@ardentstudios.com

BIMI_RECORDS 1

  • v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all

MTA_STS_RECORDS 1

  • v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all

TLS Certificates (3)

Common NameIssuerExpires
ardentstudios.com C=US, O=Google Trust Services, CN=WE1 Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:01:32 +0000
WE1 C=US, O=Google Trust Services LLC, CN=GTS Root R4 Tue, 20 Feb 2029 14:00:00 +0000
GTS Root R4 C=BE, O=GlobalSign nv-sa, 2.5.4.11=Root CA, CN=GlobalSign Root CA Fri, 28 Jan 2028 00:00:42 +0000

Subdomains (0)

None observed.

The proof

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Ed25519 Receipt

Receipt ID
Output Hash
af28a5d029b85e47b406753aee69ecfd8a47ee33289af13054231b94697505f0
Signature
(receipt not held at this host)
Public Key
connor-fast-v0.14.3
Parent
(genesis)
Plane
fast
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