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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/
Over here the same with Outlook now. I did add *.*.footprintdns.com to KAV which did not stop the Certificate pop-up warning ... but in the block logs of Parental Control this shows up numerous times:
https://*.nrb.footprintdns.com/apc/trans.gif (the * is a random batch of numbers and letters).
I presume this is a tracking pixel of some kind? And presume it is embedded in the GUI of Outlook?
Anyway, it all is very strange to say the least ....