So you know those Pokemon rumours?
Well some domains have just been registered.
Before you think the rumours are now confirmed, it's not clear who registered them. Could just be someone unrelated to Nintendo/TPC.
Now
this is the kind of data I can hop in on.
Current verdict: Dug into pokemonletsgoeevee.com. I'm having a hard time verifying either way. Plausible but skeptical.
If you look at the whois for both
Nintendo and
TPC's main websites, you can see they're not typically shy about declaring themselves the registrants. However, it would be equally common to keep that info private before it's gone public. And CSC is listed as the registrar for each of those.
Digs for pokemonletsgoeevee.com points out to a pair of servers in a /16
owned by CSC. Now it doesn't look like that meshes up with the servers responding for
nintendo.com, or for
pokemon.com or
pokemon-sunmoon.com (which point to the same server). However, each of these seems to point out to a CDN at the www, and while I can't pin a redirect per se for at least pokemon-sunmoon.com (it seems to complete without a fuss) navigating to it redirects you to the www, which makes me think they've got something set up on that server to shuffle it around. I'm not skilled enough on the web dev side to answer for precisely what.
What I
do find interesting about CSC in the digs is that CSC is listed as the authoritative nameservers for pokemon.com and pokemon-sunmoon.com, meaning they're handling their DNS hosting.
So the next question would be what's up with those servers that the A records point to. But navigating to the page, it's blank.
Now I'm not sure if having basic resolution with an associated blank page is something CSC does by default in their ecosystem or not. What I will say is that I know
we don't, and it wouldn't make sense to me to do it (why bother with a blank page when you could just throw NXDOMAIN and ensure a relatively low query count until you take the site live?) which has me questioning this.
But at the same time, unless I want to go register something with CSC to see how they do it (spoiler alert, I don't; corporate hosting like that outstrips the cash I'd be willing to pay) I can't provide firm evidence against it.
And a g'morning to you too.