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Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? by dharmab on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:23AM (#43291470)
I once worked for a company which was using a subdomain of an internal development domain to do some completely internal security research on our own products. The entire domain got flagged in Safe Browsing despite never being exposed to the outside world. We think Chrome's telemetry flagged it, and since it was technically routable as a public IP (all public traffic on that IP was blackholed), Chrome thought it was a public website.
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? by mkl95 on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:57AM (#43291813)
I saw a similar thing happen with a QA team's domains. Google flagged them as malicious and the company never managed to get them unflagged.
Re:Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain? by dharmab on Friday March 07, 2025 @12:24PM (#43292060)
Our lawyers knew their lawyers so there was a friendly chat and we got added to an internal whitelist within Google.