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

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.
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