Ask HN: How did internet discover my subdomain?
I have a domain that is not live. As expected, loading the domain returns: Error 1016.However...I have a subdomain with a not obvious name, like: userfileupload.sampledomain.comThis subdomain IS LIVE but has NOT been publicized/posted anywhere. It's a custom URL for authenticated users to upload media with presigned url to my Cloudflare r2 bucket.I am using CloudFlare for my DNS.How did the internet find my subdomain? Some sample user agents are:
"Expanse, a Palo Alto Networks company, searches...
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