Update: someone from the GoDaddy team reached out and explained what happened. Apparently, many years ago, a website was created using GoDaddy’s Websites + Marketing feature, which is hosted by GoDaddy. At some point, someone found that website and signed up for its newsletter. The confirmation email for that sign-up was sent from the domain mentioned in the original post.
That sign-up triggered GoDaddy’s system to automatically add several DNS records to the domain’s zone file in order to support email delivery for the confirmation message. That’s how those policies ended up in the DNS zone. On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM John R Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2025, Alex Shakhov | SH Consulting wrote: > > Access was granted through delegated access - only the account owner has > > direct access to the original account. ... > > I know enough people at Godaddy to be extremely sceptical that this was > malicious and would be rather surprised if they accidentally let someone > else into your account. > > From what you've described, it sounds like someone thought you (for some > version of you) wanted to send mail from Godaddy's mail system and > adjusted the configuration which is a fairly normal thing to do, except > that you don't know who did it. Any chance someone wanted to do a little > experiment or marketing thing, got the account owner's OK, and he or she > didn't realize it involved surprising changes to the mail config? As > anyone who's looked at a lot of DMARC reports knows, it happens. > > > Given access to over 400 domains, the potential for more serious actions > > would have been substantial. > > Indeed. > > R's, > John > -- *Over 2 million agents* are aiming for the inbox + mortgage, insurance, and legal folks too. *Spam filters work overtime*... Peek at your spam and imagine if all that landed in your inbox :D Getting through isn’t easy, but SH Consulting knows the smart moves. *Delivering 100 million+ real estate emails to inboxes* every month is solid proof, huh?
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