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Domain Drift

Eight new .gov domains register on August 21

GSA .gov registry logs show seven counties and one special district added domains in a single day.

By Lena Okafor · 6w

The GSA.gov registry recorded the registration of cityofbordentown.gov for the City of Bordentown, New Jersey, on August 21, 2026. The same instrument logged the registration of sgvmwd.gov for the San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District in Azusa, California, on that date.

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Domain Drift

Tranco and Majestic Million logs show major rank shifts for major domains

Public feed readings record significant movement in Tranco and Majestic Million rankings on August 20, 2026.

By Lena Okafor · 6w

The Tranco feed logs a jump of 59 positions for t-mobile.com, moving the domain from rank 476 on August 19 to rank 535 on August 20. The Majestic Million feed logs a shift of 513 positions for f5.com, moving the domain from rank 24 on August 19 to rank 537 on August 20.

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Domain Drift

Reachability changes across .bank domains hit 6.5x the monthly average in a single day

Ten .bank domains logged an anomalous reachability shift on 16 August 2026, sitting 4.3 standard deviations above the 28-day baseline.

By Marcus Vale · 6w

Ten.bank domains recorded reachability changes running 6.5 times the 28-day average on 16 August 2026, with the reading landing 4.3 standard deviations above that baseline. The size of the deviation is worth noting on its own terms.

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Domain Drift

Two domains land at koaladns.com from separate providers, DomainDrift logs

iphonedevsdk.com and loadmap.net each moved their DNS to koaladns.com, arriving from different origin providers.

By Lena Okafor · 6w

Two domains arrived at koaladns.com from different starting points, with DRM3's DomainDrift instrument recording both migrations in the same observation window. iphonedevsdk.com left magpiedns.com for koaladns.com. loadmap.net made the same destination choice from a different origin, kirklanddc.com.

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Domain Drift

São Paulo traffic authority swaps three Imperva nameservers for five gov.br entries

detran.sp.gov.br replaced its entire DNS delegation on 22 July 2026, moving from three impervasecuredns.net entries to five sp.gov.br nameservers.

By Marcus Vale · 6w

On 22 July 2026, detran.sp.gov.br dropped all three of its existing nameservers and added five replacements in a single recorded move. The outgoing entries were ns1.a0.impervasecuredns.net, ns1.a1.impervasecuredns.net and ns1.a2.impervasecuredns.net.

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Domain Drift

Bangladesh e-procurement portal adds external nameserver in DNS change

eprocure.gov.bd replaced its own two nameservers with bcc-vm-ns2 on 22 July 2026, ending a configuration that had pointed only to the domain itself.

By Marcus Vale · 6w

Bangladesh's government e-procurement portal, eprocure.gov.bd, had its DNS nameserver configuration altered on 22 July 2026, swapping out ns1.eprocure.gov.bd and ns2.eprocure.gov.bd for a single new entry, bcc-vm-ns2. The DRM3 DomainDrift instrument recorded the change as of that date.

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Domain Drift

stoloto.ru drops four Selectel nameservers for two nic.ru entries

The domain swapped its entire DNS delegation in one recorded move on 22 July 2026.

By Marcus Vale · 6w

stoloto.ru replaced all four of its Selectel nameservers with two nic.ru entries on 22 July 2026, according to a reading by DRM3's DomainDrift instrument. The prior configuration listed a.ns.selectel.ru, b.ns.selectel.ru, c.ns.selectel.ru and d.ns.selectel.ru. The incoming configuration lists ns3-l2.nic.ru and ns4-l2.

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AWS Route 53 draws 67 domains in one week at 2.3 times normal pace

Sixty-seven domains switched their DNS provider to AWS Route 53 in the seven days ending 18 August 2026, arriving from Azure DNS, Cloudflare, GoDaddy and Namecheap.

By Marcus Vale · 6w

Sixty-seven domains moved their DNS provider to AWS Route 53 in the seven days ending 18 August 2026, a pace roughly 2.3 times the recent weekly rate. That multiple is the number that stands out. A single week running at more than twice the baseline warrants watching, even if any one week can be noise.

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Domain Drift

Three domains switch to kirklanddc.com nameservers from two different providers

theblissfirearms.com and fullhdfilm.us left magpiedns.com, while carbuildindex.com departed koaladns.com, all landing at kirklanddc.com.

By Marcus Vale · 6w

Three domains shifted their nameservers to kirklanddc.com, arriving from two different prior providers, according to readings by DRM3's DomainDrift instrument. Two of the three shared the same origin. theblissfirearms.com and fullhdfilm.us both departed magpiedns.com for kirklanddc.com.

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