Dataweaz

centurylink.com

Summary

Registrar
CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
Status
clientTransferProhibited
Created on
August 9, 2006
Expires on
August 9, 2027
Name servers
authns1.qwest.net, authns2.qwest.net
Mail servers
mxa-007e5801.gslb.pphosted.com, mxb-007e5801.gslb.pphosted.com
DMARC
Reject
SPF
Soft

Spoofing protection (DMARC)

Reject

E-mails spoofing this domain are rejected.

DMARC tells mail servers what to do with an e-mail that claims to come from centurylink.com but fails SPF and DKIM checks.

Policy
Reject
Subdomain policy
Reject
Messages covered
100%
DKIM alignment
Relaxed
SPF alignment
Relaxed
Aggregate reports
[email protected]
Failure reports
[email protected]

Record

v=DMARC1; p=reject; fo=1; rua=mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected]

Authorized senders (SPF)

Soft

E-mails sent by any other server are accepted but flagged as suspicious.

SPF lists the servers allowed to send e-mails for centurylink.com.

RuleValueResult
include%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.comAllowed
include_spf.salesforce.comAllowed
all—Suspicious

Top-level DNS lookups: 2 of 10 allowed

Record

v=spf1 include:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ~all

E-mail signing (DKIM)

DKIM keys published by centurylink.com under the most common selectors. Other keys may exist under selectors specific to each sending service.

SelectorLikely serviceKeyStatus
s1SendGridRSA 2048 bitsActive
s2SendGridRSA 1024 bits · shortActive
default—RSA 1024 bits · shortActive

RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits, called short keys, are discouraged: they are easier to break.

MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC: the e-mail records

Four DNS records make a domain's e-mail work. MX says where e-mails sent to centurylink.com arrive; SPF, DKIM and DMARC let mail servers check that an e-mail claiming to come from centurylink.com was really sent by this domain, which protects it against spoofing.

MX

An MX (Mail Exchanger) record designates a server that receives e-mails sent to the domain. When someone writes to an @centurylink.com address, their mail server queries the DNS for the domain's MX records, then delivers the message to the server they point to.

Example record

centurylink.com  MX  10 mx1.centurylink.com.
centurylink.com  MX  20 mx2.centurylink.com.

What the record contains

10, 20
Priority: the server with the lowest number is tried first. Servers with equal priority share the load.
mx1.centurylink.com.
Host name of the mail server. It must point to an A or AAAA record: an IP address or an alias (CNAME) is not allowed here.
0 .
An MX "0 .", called a null MX, declares that the domain accepts no e-mail: sending servers give up at once instead of retrying.

Declaring at least two servers with different priorities avoids losing e-mails during an outage: sending servers retry for several days and fall back on the backup server. Without any MX, they try to deliver directly to the IP address of the domain.

SPF

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a TXT record listing the servers allowed to send e-mails on behalf of the domain. The receiving server checks that the sender is on this list. The final "all" rule says what to do with other servers: reject them (-all), flag their e-mails as suspicious (~all) or make no decision (?all).

Example record

centurylink.com  TXT  "v=spf1 mx include:_spf.google.com ip4:192.0.2.10 -all"

What the record contains

v=spf1
Identifies the record as an SPF policy. It must come first.
ip4, ip6
Allows a specific IP address or an address range, for example ip4:192.0.2.0/24.
a, mx
Allows the addresses of the domain itself (A record) or those of its mail servers (MX).
include
Allows the servers of another domain, usually a sending service: include:_spf.google.com for Google Workspace.
-all, ~all
Final rule, applied to every other server. Its qualifier decides what happens to them: - rejects them, ~ flags their e-mails as suspicious, ? makes no decision, + accepts them (avoid it).

A domain must publish only one SPF record, and its evaluation cannot exceed 10 DNS lookups (include, a, mx, exists, redirect). Beyond that, mail servers treat it as invalid.

DKIM

DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) signs every outgoing e-mail with a private key. The matching public key is published in a TXT record at selector._domainkey.centurylink.com, so the recipient can check that the message really comes from the domain and was not altered on the way. The selector is chosen by each sending service and cannot be guessed: Dataweaz checks the most common ones (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Mailchimp, SendGrid…), so a key published under another selector may exist without appearing here.

Example record

google._domainkey.centurylink.com  TXT  "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA…"

What the record contains

v=DKIM1
Protocol version. Optional but recommended, in which case it must come first.
k
Key algorithm: rsa, the most common, or ed25519.
p
Public key, base64-encoded. An empty value means the key has been revoked.
t
Flags: y marks a key in testing, whose failures must not be penalized; s forbids its use for subdomains.

Each sending service publishes its key under its own selector (google, selector1, k1…), which allows several keys and seamless rotation. A 2048-bit RSA key is recommended today.

DMARC

DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) builds on SPF and DKIM. Published on _dmarc.centurylink.com, it tells mail servers what to do with an e-mail that fails these checks (let it through, send it to spam or reject it) and where to send reports.

Example record

_dmarc.centurylink.com  TXT  "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; rua=mailto:[email protected]; adkim=r; aspf=r"

What the record contains

v=DMARC1
Identifies the record as a DMARC policy. It must come first.
p
Policy applied to e-mails that fail the checks: none (monitoring only), quarantine (spam folder) or reject.
sp
Subdomain policy. Without it, subdomains follow the domain's policy.
rua
Address that receives daily aggregate reports about e-mails sent on behalf of the domain, whether they pass the checks or not.
ruf
Address that receives detailed failure reports, message by message. Few providers still send them.
pct
Percentage of e-mails subject to the policy, for a gradual rollout. 100 by default.
adkim, aspf
DKIM and SPF alignment: r (relaxed, a subdomain of the same domain is enough) or s (strict, the domain must be identical).

To roll out DMARC without blocking legitimate e-mails, start with p=none and an rua address, analyze the reports to find every service sending on behalf of the domain, then move to quarantine and finally to reject.

DNS records of centurylink.com

IP addresses (A and AAAA)

An A record maps the domain name to an IPv4 address: the address of the server that browsers contact to display the website. The AAAA record does the same for an IPv6 address. A domain can have several of them to spread visits across several servers.

TypeIP address
A155.70.55.25
A155.70.44.25
AAAA2001:428:b20:16:155:70:118:11
AAAA2001:428:b21:16:155:70:66:11

Name servers (NS)

NS records designate the authoritative DNS servers of the domain: they answer every question about its other records (A, MX, TXT…). They are provided by the registrar, the hosting provider or a dedicated DNS service, and several servers are declared so that the domain keeps working if one of them fails.

ServerIP address
authns1.qwest.net63.150.72.4
authns2.qwest.net208.44.130.120

Mail servers (MX)

MX records point to the servers that receive e-mails sent to the domain, that is to @centurylink.com addresses. Each server has a priority: the one with the lowest number is tried first, the others take over if it fails. Without an MX record, the domain cannot receive e-mails.

PriorityServerIP address
10mxa-007e5801.gslb.pphosted.com205.220.178.108
10mxb-007e5801.gslb.pphosted.com205.220.166.108

TXT records

TXT records hold free text. They are used to prove ownership of the domain to online services (Google, Microsoft, Facebook…) and to publish e-mail security rules: SPF on the domain itself, DMARC on _dmarc.centurylink.com.

NameContent
centurylink.comciscocidomainverification=1b40d6ea93827771ccd6884270921863507f03068795e8ffb675ca727d777843
centurylink.comadobe-sign-verification=6ab640d036282542165a7b71b870628
centurylink.comibmid=17c9cbbe-1b1d-470e-a46c-0bf565d84599
centurylink.com_uxgapixim6i6brswwzfbs3edbdanrfm
centurylink.commiro-verification=1a7b8a6cc4dfc40c718fa9a98e29fb06d4f8a63a
centurylink.com_yq9l2feckqku9yfzn1wpn5wqik2bdg3
centurylink.com6RF75J197YNY1COZ4J13C5PK02SW2QVWKP51S5C1
centurylink.com_f7sz901c59paxpgyje5cjizhulk8e50
centurylink.comgoogle-site-verification=pkDDhldI-SOaYp-udnFsIEtZuYWSnoRBSYpT_h_AKTA
centurylink.comr/fkU3trSEM8+QCJMOPhfiurFTDtXgrev7XXG6p4U7ew81OoInYwNabmKBXweE+7yZDnAenBJ55qVL7MYOLlmw==
centurylink.comv=spf1 include:%{ir}.%{v}.%{d}.spf.has.pphosted.com include:_spf.salesforce.com ~all
centurylink.comJ6D1LApuV7QUcQwp3V8eOuaC8Nx0DiIure3ZA0Q3MKcNb2YwvaiFHH4RmPMYcRBN+KacuvQTgj6Gl2VcciqQsw==
centurylink.comciscocidomainverification=491264f86a435b40ecf5b45fe696520f1fea0d74e6d802c6bfa8f88dd1c42876
centurylink.comatlassian-domain-verification=B9cb38vQ0e4rN5v0/k2Q1/I4Wf48LlXj5QSIkboheSGYbGS+KcokpAfG1n3Ez7Vl
centurylink.comadobe-idp-site-verification=433cdb79da22d958ed93f9cff11b5eeb637b78254e376e8a4c2e53b1f78f952c
centurylink.comgoogle-site-verification=qH2dld9b3rGjMGkhfFqe25p23wXfrZBDPh1ej8i1ZBM
centurylink.comfacebook-domain-verification=oz54xjolrdi9w3io124i8sgxvr5qa3
centurylink.comgoogle-site-verification=eUM7qVFcN09vmV8uDgpUgqTODo622w1fBSjXjEp_tk4
centurylink.comgoogle-site-verification=eKuWhd04Pr_SAwILUDL0ef8SRlCXE9JPI27hW2m6AcQ
centurylink.comgoogle-site-verification=8kk_hc4rNlCcgObCpJ4Tq_zMBFdcqhHcqm-MshnTrF8
centurylink.comapple-domain-verification=ynfOI0LBhiDkUkz0
centurylink.com_etait8chbnpqdd4zrjdyphetijy51vm
centurylink.comcitrix.mobile.ads.otp=uwyegxiq71vl4t43ndh0kerk
centurylink.comatlassian-domain-verification=F6OBkgGxZofmw0qMxtQjV7RhIfcbOt3ldwp6I4RTYRPqcPQGtiflmCpoFvUrELh2
centurylink.comMS=ms15583092
_dmarc.centurylink.comv=DMARC1; p=reject; fo=1; rua=mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected]
s1._domainkey.centurylink.comk=rsa; t=s; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAvnllSK36Hua+JFEH5n5U89tleaVpM3dYBMsBTWntG0eIk56vVBupRxsKvqNP/gPC4S5LXZN0gNtlAIb6gmDjwN9r0KV4VDID2bjkq1BQkbKgkddxByLDliC0FIh2zMozvDNlzlu37fL4NKiRtPF6VcqhzgoNDhvUymzMP53sGa9DzzYWcMups9mI8M+xyEywzjUUreLAe4KRpvJJ7dahZIYOXQG8R/GMcLZdJw7qq6Otl/S4j3Xupn35soQ6NKkBs4LMtlLnr+rBz1fbV1/4HHOPvkVW5fnLz1Y4/grjJNlqXppjjKjgC//haFhc5CSLePq2HfxOFWhAdQCtZnPBXQIDAQAB
s2._domainkey.centurylink.comk=rsa; t=s; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDYcOnvjMA07kWkKLM7x6V82+1VLTeXa+wQgJbcBVMB9e+Sc3O5sYSp9S0RPsSoVb+lStyZj3yGscmRhL7v+AHDKUaFkfM7SfoQ33+xGi87a9y/vUJSnA1HXg9iA6Rdn+FRMUoB/1uDL6KB956cBXxBps76DeNRVTCqPByiELyyLwIDAQAB
default._domainkey.centurylink.comp=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCWe7QZ3Z/NvtnCAxaiSd1Liyr00WMEKpB0+ZaHBiAirXYGtrQifWUmpeks74yxgNDVBlkPNPNYmfWTxKBZohtHFS89/CNsWDdA+9lf3TLW/NTXKkxBHdytlNvkkSJoJGYY6X0C+N//m+KYyutvOOCSwXNgl53NV1n+d7dhlrBunwIDAQAB

Related IP addresses

IPv4 addresses used by centurylink.com: website, name servers, mail servers and senders authorized by SPF.

IP addressUsed for/24 block
155.70.55.25Website155.70.55.0/24
155.70.44.25Website155.70.44.0/24
63.150.72.4Name server authns1.qwest.net63.150.72.0/24
208.44.130.120Name server authns2.qwest.net208.44.130.0/24
205.220.178.108Mail server mxa-007e5801.gslb.pphosted.com205.220.178.0/24
205.220.166.108Mail server mxb-007e5801.gslb.pphosted.com205.220.166.0/24

WHOIS of the domain centurylink.com

Domain Name: CENTURYLINK.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 547993577_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.corporatedomains.com
   Registrar URL: http://cscdbs.com
   Updated Date: 2026-08-05T05:20:58Z
   Creation Date: 2006-08-09T04:16:10Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2027-08-09T04:16:10Z
   Registrar: CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.
   Registrar IANA ID: 299
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: 8887802723
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: serverDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited
   Name Server: AUTHNS1.CENTURYLINK.NET
   Name Server: AUTHNS2.CENTURYLINK.NET
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
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