On: Text-only CNN

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How did you manage to convince yourself it's theirs?

Why couldn't they just put it on lite.cnn.com?

If you try to look up the whois for cnn.io, you only get:

  Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
  Registrar IANA ID: 299
  Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
  Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
  Name Server: NS-24.AWSDNS-03.COM
  Name Server: NS-630.AWSDNS-14.NET
  Name Server: NS-1845.AWSDNS-38.CO.UK
  Name Server: NS-1268.AWSDNS-30.ORG

There is nothing here that indicates this is legit CNN?

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I said they use the same CDN hosts with the same forward and reverse names. Which I find quite convincing, on top of everything else.

    dig lite.cnn.io
    
    lite.cnn.io.		18	IN	CNAME	turner-tls.map.fastly.net.
    turner-tls.map.fastly.net. 20	IN	A	151.101.1.67

    dig www.cnn.com
    www.cnn.com.		39	IN	CNAME	turner-tls.map.fastly.net.
    turner-tls.map.fastly.net. 18	IN	A	151.101.1.67

[jimktrains2 → 0x0]

I'm not sure why you just put the registry line? Also this is the same registrar cnn.com uses.

Also, this registrar doesn't seem to provide _any_ whois contact information, is that allowed by ICAN?

[ryanlol → 0x0]

>There is nothing here that indicates this is legit CNN?

Registering through CSC is difficult if you aren't a BigCo.