![]() ![]() Larger corporations and those with several different business interests may need multiple domains. Individual users and small businesses might find that a single domain name is all that is needed to establish an online presence and develop a brand. Once registered, the name is assigned to a host’s primary and secondary nameservers, which point the domain to a website. ![]() Finding the right domain name can take some time and thought, plus the help of online tools to perform a domain name search and check availability, but once a name has been picked, all that’s needed is to register it either with an independent registrar or a web hosting company for a term of one or multiple years. Securing a domain requires only a few steps. Site owners may be tempted to focus all their attention on setting up and maintaining the website itself, but managing the domain is a key factor in keeping the website live and accessible. The domain name not only establishes its owner’s presence on the Internet, it also serves as a portal to a business or personal website designed to serve that owner’s unique needs. I recently enabled a DNS gateway to be able to see requests from my router, and network devices.Domain management, or domain name management, refers to the ongoing tasks of keeping a personal or corporate domain (or domains) stable, secure, and able to support related websites. (far more than any other server).ĭigging into this more, I found that it is related to the built-in router security "Home Shield" that ships with newer TP-Link routers. Was surprised to find 80K + requests (in 24 hours) out to an Avira "Safe Things" subdomains *. ![]() Here is the kicker though, I have the Avira / Home Shield services completely turned off (I wasn't even subscribed to their paid service for it). The router doesn't care, and sends ALL your traffic to be "analyzed" anyhow. See this response from TP Link (towards bottom of review) from last year - Update: I emailed reviewer to confirm TP-Link never updated him after. I contacted support about this again, and was given a non-answer about how the requests are to check subscription status. 80K + requests a day to check subscription status? Why would it even need to do 1 single subscription check, if I'm not enabling any functionality that is behind a subscription paywall? Also the rate of requests is not constant, it is higher when my internet traffic is higher. To me this lack of consistent answer / response from TP-Link is as concerning as the requests themselves. I'm not seeing much online about this issue, as I don't think many people realize it is even occurring (since traffic is outgoing straight from router, as opposed to an individual computer). Hoping to gain some attention on this issue and get a real answer / response from TP-Link about what exactly is going on here. As well as a concrete timeline and promise for a fix to stop these outgoing requests, when we aren't even using their anti-virus services.Įdit: Additional details, this is on their WiFI 6 AX3000 (Archer AX55) Router. From the XDA Review looks like this is also happening on their Deco series. If you want to easily check your own router, you can use any DNS Gateway ( NextDNS, Cloudflare Gateway Pi-Hole etc.) Just be sure to set the DNS servers under "Advanced->Network->Internet->Advanced Settings" because the DHCP DNS server setting will only apply to the devices inside the network, not the router itself.Įdit #2: I've also contacted Avira directly regarding the endpoints, in the hope that they'll be more straightforward than TP-Link about the purpose. Will update here when I receive a response. Update: Avira support got back to me and said they couldn't answer any questions because I'm not a paying customer. So they can collect data, for free, but not tell me what the data is.Įdit #3: If anyone knows of good industry contacts, who can dig into this more or get real answers, please send a message! I've seen GamerNexus brought up a few times, but don't see any contact method. Thanks to /u/Lord_Buffum for sharing this - Įssentially they say that the frequency (not existence) of DNS requests is a bug that will be fixed, but never explain WHY the router needs to contact Avira with HomeShield disabled. To me this adds almost no reassurance or new info. We already knew Avira is used for HomeShield, and that DNS lookups to Avira are to get the IP address. What we don't know is 1) Why the requests are being made with the service disabled, and 2) What data is even being sent in the requests (and why). ![]()
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