An Abandoned CDN Domain Was Re-Registered. Thousands of Sites Still Call It.

An Abandoned CDN Domain Was Re-Registered. Thousands of Sites Still Call It. The Hacker NewsSep 18, 2026Web Security / Compliance In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network. The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire. What it had not lost were its callers. Thousands of websites, code repositories, and documentation pages still carry hard-coded references to hostnames beneath it. The new owner holds wildcard DNS across the entire domain, and any hostname under it now resolves to infrastructure that person controls. Today the apex serves an ad-heavy media downloader page, which is unremarkable. The remarkable part is that the decision…