Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
Did I find a phishing link from pakistan.gov.pk? (ryoku-weil.biz)
1 points by Ryoku 4762 days ago
1 comments
aroch 4762 days ago
The reason the .gov.pk domains resolve into the US is fairly simple...

Their government domains[1] are controlled by Prolexic[2] a lesser known brother of CloudFlare; they're a DDoS protection service.

[1] http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=72.52.12.175?showDetails=t... [2]http://www.prolexic.com/

link
Ryoku 4762 days ago
That's pretty interesting, I didn't know of those services.
link