wildcard record

A DNS record (glossary)DNS record One entry in a DNS zone, made of a name, a type, a TTL and data. Full definition of DNS record whose name starts with an asterisk, answering for any name under a domain that has no record of its own. Parking (glossary)parking Showing an ad or for-sale page on a domain instead of a real website. Full definition of parking pages often use it. The gTLD (glossary)gTLD generic top-level domain A top-level domain not tied to a country, run under ICANN contracts. Full definition of gTLD Registry Agreement (glossary)Registry Agreement The contract between ICANN and a gTLD registry operator. Full definition of Registry Agreement bars registries (glossary)registry The central database and system of a top-level domain, or loosely the organization that runs it. Full definition of registry from making unregistered names resolve, by wildcard or otherwise, at any level they run. Such lookups must return NXDOMAIN (glossary)NXDOMAIN Non-Existent Domain The DNS answer meaning the requested name does not exist. Full definition of NXDOMAIN ("does not exist").