email-rackspace[.]daiedu[.]com

The domain email-rackspace.daiedu.com was registered on February 27, 2025 through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com and is currently taken offline. Infrastructure analysis shows the domain resolves to IP address 172.245.97.119, which is assigned to an Irish hosting provider (AS36352 HostPapa). DNS is served by Cloudflare, using the authoritative nameservers adele.ns.cloudflare.com and hunts.ns.cloudflare.com. No TLS certificate is presented, indicating that the site was served over plain HTTP when active.

The page title returned during the brief online period was "Rackspace Webmail: Hosted Email for Business," matching the declared scam type of brand impersonation targeting a generic email service. Google Safe Browsing classifies the site as a social engineering threat, and PhishDestroy has blocked it. The domain appears on a single security blocklist and has attracted attention from 15 of 95 VirusTotal scanners, confirming that multiple security vendors have flagged it as malicious. Reputation services assign extremely low trust scores (Scamadviser 1/100, Gridinsoft 0/100).

The combination of a recent registration, lack of encryption, low trust metrics, and confirmed detection by reputable blocklists strongly suggests the domain was used for credential‑stealing or phishing campaigns impersonating a legitimate email provider. Defenders should ensure that any outbound traffic to 172.245.97.119 is denied, update email security gateways to block the domain and associated IP, and monitor for any residual artifacts such as phishing emails referencing the Rackspace brand. Continuous observation of the hosting ASN and Cloudflare name servers is advised, as threat actors may re‑register similar domains under the same infrastructure.