mcafee-upgrade.com
Observed Aug 11, 2026, 01:48 UTC (4d ago). Every field below was attested with an Ed25519 signature at scan time.
mcafee-upgrade.com is on the survey sweep, which works its way across the whole catalog rather than returning to one name on a schedule. Putting mcafee-upgrade.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.
Watch mcafee-upgrade.com Watching a domain needs a DRM3 account. The reading above stays free and public either way.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.
DNS Records
A 1
34.41.139.193
AAAA 1
2600:1900:4001:96e:8000:1:7500:b103
MX 2
10mx1.csof.net10mx2.csof.net
TXT 1
v=spf1 include:_incspfcheck.mailspike.net -all
NS 2
ns2.hwrn.netns1.hwrn.net
SOA 1
ns1.hwrn.net hostmaster.hwrn.net
MCP_RECORDS 1
v=spf1 include:_incspfcheck.mailspike.net -all
DMARC_RECORDS 1
v=spf1 include:_incspfcheck.mailspike.net -all
BIMI_RECORDS 1
v=spf1 include:_incspfcheck.mailspike.net -all
MTA_STS_RECORDS 1
v=spf1 include:_incspfcheck.mailspike.net -all
TLS Certificates (2)
| Common Name | Issuer | Expires |
|---|---|---|
*.mcafee-upgrade.com |
C=AT, O=ZeroSSL GmbH, CN=ZeroSSL RSA DV SSL CA 2 | Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:59:59 +0000 |
ZeroSSL RSA DV SSL CA 2 |
C=GB, O=Sectigo Limited, CN=Sectigo Public Server Authentication Root R46 | Sun, 23 Sep 2035 23:59:59 +0000 |
Subdomains (0)
None observed.
Signed at scan time. Check the math yourself. Every line above is part of one signed observation. Re-hash it and check the Ed25519 signature in your own browser; the only network request the check makes is for the published public keys.
Verify this receiptEd25519 Receipt
- Receipt ID
rcpt_cd4b44a36a5d1eb4- Output Hash
4dde8c66b33015d4778243d84572e328420e1fa86959dae499589ea66fd0498b- Signature
ed25519:806f7db912480e68e23729dadeb0cabbe05ee908c3eaf0704c450759c7651d295dc56f9f7ac0c0a3c82a985627500b5a2cf9be44d1bf3dabe4bd634b83f07b0e- Public Key
ed25519:4859bb613d650e12dd7478cc307c73a8712fabc115a9dc59f65534ed3c09a8f9- Parent
(genesis)- Plane
- fast