Does someone know what this domain actually is? EDIT: After looking explicitly f...

adolph · on May 13, 2017

Is that a Welsh company?

pbhjpbhj · on May 13, 2017

You can tell it's _not_ Cymraeg because of the "j"s.

Despite Jones being the stereotypical name for people in Wales, the old Welsh language, Cymraeg, doesn't have a J, nor have Z, K, V, X (IIRC). Jones is an English loanword, brought over apparently with the Norman conquest (though derived from Hebrew).

The modern language of Wales is of course British English with a ~100% use rate; Cymraeg still has an approx 8% (but falling) of the population who say when surveyed that they can speak it fluently, however.

Yeah, I'm terrible at parties.

unit91 · on May 13, 2017

...says adolph. The Germans, however, use much shorter terms like "Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften". :-)

lionyo · on May 13, 2017

Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften German Noun

- insurance company which provides legal protection

Scoundreller · on May 13, 2017

My guess was going to be left-handed bricklayers that wear blue hats. Close.

ptaipale · on May 15, 2017

Off-topic, but I think that traditionally, the longest official word in German was "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz", the name for a law about testing and labeling of beef, now repealed. This word (63 letters) was of course not in everyday use by most people, but it was actually in the law.

movedx · on May 14, 2017

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" - town in Wales.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

Scoundreller · on May 13, 2017

Will visiting that URL cause my IP to "hit" on https://intel.malwaretech.com/WannaCrypt.html now?

The map is populating much faster now, maybe they integrated it with the URL?

imsodrunklol · on May 13, 2017

Say that 5 times fast, I dare you.

ezequiel-garzon · on May 13, 2017

The registered domain gwea.com: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/stolen-nsa-...

Edit: I'm not so sure now. The whois record seems to suggest recent activity:

   Domain Name: GWEA.COM
   Registrar: 22NET, INC.
   Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1555
   Whois Server: whois.22.cn
   Referral URL: http://www.22.cn
   Name Server: PK3.22.CN
   Name Server: PK4.22.CN
   Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
   Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Updated Date: 18-mar-2017
   Creation Date: 17-mar-1999
   Expiration Date: 17-mar-2018

eddyg · on May 13, 2017

ends with "gwea.com". Big difference.

ezequiel-garzon · on May 13, 2017

At the risk of losing more karma... isn't the domain registered to stop this gwea.com itself?

The hacker, though, didn’t register the gwea.com domain name. On Friday morning, a 22-year-old UK security researcher known online as MalwareTech noticed the address in WannaCry’s code and found that it was still available. “I saw it wasn’t registered and thought, ‘I think I’ll have that,’” he says. He purchased it at NameCheap.com for $10.69, and [...] [1]

If it is, it seems to contradict the whois record.

[1]: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/stolen-nsa-...

detaro · on May 13, 2017

The domain is not gwea.com, it ends in gwea.com. Two paragraphs above your quote in the article:

> a dot-com address consisting of a long string of gobbledygook letters and numbers ending in “gwea.com”

jstoja mentions it above: iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com

ezequiel-garzon · on May 13, 2017

My bad, I had misunderstood it completely. Thanks.

Om230 · on May 18, 2017

Sir my mobile phone is hage