xplore.ca - DNS, WHOIS, DMARC and SPF of the domain name

Summary

Registrar: Rebel.ca Corp.
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Created on: June 23, 2003
Expires on: June 23, 2027
Name servers: ns2.xplornet.com, ns1.xplornet.com
Mail servers: xplore-ca.mail.protection.outlook.com
DMARC: Monitoring
SPF: Strict
DKIM: 2 keys found
Website: See the website

Spoofing protection (DMARC)

Monitoring

E-mails spoofing this domain are only reported, not blocked.

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

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

Record

v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected];

Authorized senders (SPF)

Strict

E-mails sent by any other server are rejected.

SPF lists the servers allowed to send e-mails for xplore.ca.

Rule	Value	Result
ip4	96.44.69.88/32	Allowed
ip4	96.44.69.78/32	Allowed
ip4	96.44.65.230/32	Allowed
ip4	142.166.86.118/32	Allowed
ip4	96.44.69.84	Allowed
include	spf.protection.outlook.com	Allowed
include	amazonses.com	Allowed
include	spf-ca.emailsignatures365.com	Allowed
include	spf.mandrillapp.com	Allowed
include	_spf.salesforce.com	Allowed
include	_spf.sparkpostmail.com	Allowed
include	_spf.prod.hydra.sophos.com	Allowed
all	—	Rejected

Top-level DNS lookups: 7 of 10 allowed

Record

v=spf1 ip4:96.44.69.88/32 ip4:96.44.69.78/32 ip4:96.44.65.230/32 ip4:142.166.86.118/32 ip4:96.44.69.84 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:amazonses.com include:spf-ca.emailsignatures365.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.sparkpostmail.com include:_spf.prod.hydra.sophos.com -all

E-mail signing (DKIM)

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

Selector	Likely service	Key	Status
selector1	Microsoft 365	RSA 2048 bits	Active
mandrill	Mandrill	RSA 1024 bits · short	Active

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 xplore.ca arrive; SPF, DKIM and DMARC let mail servers check that an e-mail claiming to come from xplore.ca 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 @xplore.ca 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

xplore.ca  MX  10 mx1.xplore.ca.
xplore.ca  MX  20 mx2.xplore.ca.

What the record contains

10, 20: Priority: the server with the lowest number is tried first. Servers with equal priority share the load.
mx1.xplore.ca.: 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

xplore.ca  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.xplore.ca, 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.xplore.ca  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.xplore.ca, 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.xplore.ca  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 xplore.ca

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.

Type	IP address
A	3.99.18.104

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.

Server	IP address
ns2.xplornet.com	162.159.27.162
ns1.xplornet.com	162.159.26.54

Mail servers (MX)

MX records point to the servers that receive e-mails sent to the domain, that is to @xplore.ca 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.

Priority	Server	IP address
0	xplore-ca.mail.protection.outlook.com	52.101.190.1

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.xplore.ca.

Name	Content
xplore.ca	astr4oa5ikks40qn0lpd44u0ll
xplore.ca	bcn=FF2F0062-42D5-11F0-B55D-E7600204748D
xplore.ca	google-site-verification=cEx2bYLqZ11ZWoCta03NoORrTR4W2LSXO7WzcoCgWm4
xplore.ca	sophos-domain-verification=3c17269590d9c0580d07daf3353e5327ccbdb09826bc16f4f332ef79544cf7b8
xplore.ca	v=spf1 ip4:96.44.69.88/32 ip4:96.44.69.78/32 ip4:96.44.65.230/32 ip4:142.166.86.118/32 ip4:96.44.69.84 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:amazonses.com include:spf-ca.emailsignatures365.com include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.sparkpostmail.com include:_spf.prod.hydra.sophos.com -all
xplore.ca	ZOOM_verify_7G3G2bNY2fujS8B7atZSwc
xplore.ca	v5oa1f1df9pood49kbuec7qfuj
xplore.ca	apple-domain-verification=jvXXXoTCx2N2lh58
xplore.ca	MS=ms50473327
xplore.ca	serval-domain-verification-q4ge71=C2uRmW8aon9PY8CN7WcMI2lf7
xplore.ca	9v4pc5ydbwrlyrh6jt1tj29blxgx3hgk
xplore.ca	anthropic-domain-verification-ybwdvn=019scO4qDxfdoTbc637RBFdxM
xplore.ca	zapier-domain-verification-challenge=3bdf54db-3314-44ad-bd62-8b45b58d42c2
xplore.ca	j0pwg9zm8sp7hnlm4j494mmsxhgz4tc4
xplore.ca	atlassian-domain-verification=HPaimlRqspkOQWFzGq79SLDzVad4s0TBiHkiJ8mcZtlCuyGPjpjgru0/jK0unhdv
xplore.ca	google-site-verification=PiP4Bv3FEnn6YjHeQR_T_hLSclkYg6jIXEEVR3DNZRo
xplore.ca	ZOOM_verify_0Vjx8fESJqdX7cEui8XZTm
xplore.ca	miro-verification=5eee7ecb3be632a040124dcc591e43ddf925a782
xplore.ca	ms-domain-verification=f9a167ce-878a-471f-9af1-1fcd9611c8f3
xplore.ca	lc6kif6060o305ph2lkuj5d04l
xplore.ca	jamf-site-verification=d7k26MfHybHXe-JAzyizKg
_dmarc.xplore.ca	v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected];
selector1._domainkey.xplore.ca	v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEA1TA4VqZxWiuXYXkT2zlRY7nKz91Bd77QP25tJ6z6Zx9C4am8b1uq14w4v4Sib5fIrWEXZQBXWp3OHZLrS2AYT3k3YTMhZNRbMU7BoEq+o9qyOd1pHPNunlHIKwAZPjDTT/RYB41ZWgbbnbPZKH1rNahbqwnXjWGFTrZX+IeJ6svOmwycvP5fpaHmsTRPKDNE3lbD5e1SduG1f3gFxCFMZ9k2e5T1tJUFyF3Tb5pG9DmfkHViDQfshcWhKPCkH2rXWhWnLjeXiO9S1oyVRnah+5KFzk1GU6WGVtMOEYif3OcP/t1hLYGPwLnel9y+92x7i631FlEhA1QhEoDDVU784QIDAQAB;
mandrill._domainkey.xplore.ca	v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCrLHiExVd55zd/IQ/J/mRwSRMAocV/hMB3jXwaHH36d9NaVynQFYV8NaWi69c1veUtRzGt7yAioXqLj7Z4TeEUoOLgrKsn8YnckGs9i3B3tVFB+Ch/4mPhXWiNfNdynHWBcPcbJ8kjEQ2U8y78dHZj1YeRXXVvWob2OaKynO8/lQIDAQAB;

Related IP addresses

IPv4 addresses used by xplore.ca: website, name servers, mail servers and senders authorized by SPF.

IP address	Used for	/24 block
3.99.18.104	Website	3.99.18.0/24
162.159.27.162	Name server ns2.xplornet.com	162.159.27.0/24
162.159.26.54	Name server ns1.xplornet.com	162.159.26.0/24
52.101.190.1	Mail server xplore-ca.mail.protection.outlook.com	52.101.190.0/24
96.44.69.88	Authorized by SPF	96.44.69.0/24
96.44.69.78	Authorized by SPF	96.44.69.0/24
96.44.65.230	Authorized by SPF	96.44.65.0/24
142.166.86.118	Authorized by SPF	142.166.86.0/24
96.44.69.84	Authorized by SPF	96.44.69.0/24

WHOIS of the domain xplore.ca

Domain Name: xplore.ca
Registry Domain ID: D166892-CIRA
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.ca.fury.ca
Registrar URL: www.rebel.ca
Updated Date: 2026-08-07T04:08:09Z
Creation Date: 2003-06-23T16:00:02Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2027-06-23T04:00:00Z
Registrar: Rebel.ca Corp.
Registrar IANA ID: not applicable
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8445482157
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone Ext:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: 107759296-CIRA
Registrant Name: Xplore Inc.
Registrant Organization: Xplore Inc.
Registrant Street: 532 Montreal Rd,  Suite 261
Registrant City: Ottawa
Registrant State/Province: ON
Registrant Postal Code: K1K4R4
Registrant Country: CA
Registrant Phone: +1.8664973235
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +1.6137061248
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Registry Admin ID: 107759543-CIRA
Admin Name: Connor Malcolm
Admin Organization: Privacy Hero Inc.
Admin Street: 532 Montreal Rd,  Suite 261
Admin City: Ottawa
Admin State/Province: ON
Admin Postal Code: K1K4R4
Admin Country: CA
Admin Phone: +1.8664973235
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: +1.6137061248
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: [email protected]
Registry Tech ID: 107759543-CIRA
Tech Name: Connor Malcolm
Tech Organization: Privacy Hero Inc.
Tech Street: 532 Montreal Rd,  Suite 261
Tech City: Ottawa
Tech State/Province: ON
Tech Postal Code: K1K4R4
Tech Country: CA
Tech Phone: +1.8664973235
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Tech Fax: +1.6137061248
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Tech Email: [email protected]
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Name Server: ns1.xplornet.com
Name Server: ns2.xplornet.com
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
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Domain Name: xplore.ca
Registry Domain ID: D166892-CIRA
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.ca.fury.ca
Registrar URL: www.rebel.ca
Updated Date: 2026-08-07T04:08:09Z
Creation Date: 2003-06-23T16:00:02Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2027-06-23T04:00:00Z
Registrar: Rebel.ca Corp.
Registrar IANA ID: not applicable
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8445482157
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone Ext:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: 107759296-CIRA
Registrant Name: Xplore Inc.
Registrant Organization: Xplore Inc.
Registrant Street: 532 Montreal Rd,  Suite 261
Registrant City: Ottawa
Registrant State/Province: ON
Registrant Postal Code: K1K4R4
Registrant Country: CA
Registrant Phone: +1.8664973235
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax: +1.6137061248
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Registry Admin ID: 107759543-CIRA
Admin Name: Connor Malcolm
Admin Organization: Privacy Hero Inc.
Admin Street: 532 Montreal Rd,  Suite 261
Admin City: Ottawa
Admin State/Province: ON
Admin Postal Code: K1K4R4
Admin Country: CA
Admin Phone: +1.8664973235
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: +1.6137061248
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: [email protected]
Registry Tech ID: 107759543-CIRA
Tech Name: Connor Malcolm
Tech Organization: Privacy Hero Inc.
Tech Street: 532 Montreal Rd,  Suite 261
Tech City: Ottawa
Tech State/Province: ON
Tech Postal Code: K1K4R4
Tech Country: CA
Tech Phone: +1.8664973235
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Tech Fax: +1.6137061248
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Tech Email: [email protected]
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Name Server: ns1.xplornet.com
Name Server: ns2.xplornet.com
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/
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