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What is the domain "nrb.footprintdns.com"??
- Jan 08, 2019
The domain nrb.footprintdns.com is owned by Microsoft and represents servers in Microsoft datacenters. It is used for telemetry purposes that comply with Microsoft privacy commitments that you can read about at: https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-trust-center-privacy. Data sent to this domain is used to identify network connectivity and performance issues and to support improvements to the service. We have plans to rename it to be more descriptive, and to publish it at the Office 365 IP Address and URL publishing site at http://aka.ms/o365ip. If you have any problems using Office 365 related to this, please raise a support incident so that we can assist at https://support.office.com/
Is nrb.footprintds.com safe - Kaspersky says no - if so, why is it not safe
wond75
Simple- Kasp says that the domain safety certificate is issued by some one, on whom either Kasp has no confidence on, or doesn't even know about it. In that case, the domain could be safe, could be unsafe (hackable), or could be even malicious by itself.
If I have Kasp on, I will go by its advice. Even if it is against MS' own domain (which it isn't, but is a sub-let domain). Let MS do its security analysis and ensure that the firewalls don't flag it down.