Odd redirect from my deleted subdomain to an unknown domain (not mine)
What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?
I have a domain corinapastor.ro hosted on a webhosting and I keep DNS records to Cloudflare. Once I added a subdomain arh.corinapastor.ro where I installed a wordpress. Now that subdomain is deleted but when trying to acces Log In ‹ My Blog — WordPress I have a redirect to Log In ‹ My Blog — WordPress witch is not my domain. I cleared my cache and tried with a few brokers and 2 ISP/Internet connections and still same issue.
Guys from hosting told me it’s a DNS issue and when access the deleted subdomain I receive the first domain hosted on the same IP with my main domain.
Shouldn’t I get a 404 or Page does not exist instead of a redirect?
Why is it happening and who can delete this redirect and it is a DNS/cloudflare issue or it’s a hosting issue ?
What feature, service or problem is this related to?
Try to find any WP plugins, that can do redirect.
Looks like redirect made by web-server on hosting,it’s may be some redirect rules (in .htaccess for apache)
It’s may be, even, hacked WP.
1) Why the subdomain you supposedly deleted and these random subdomains are even resolving at all:
That’s because you have a wildcard DNS record *.corinapastor.ro
2) Why are they pointed to a an “unknown” website:
This “unknown” website resolves to the same IP address as the one in your SPF record, so it seems the two sites are on the same server… and somehow your subdomains (but not the apex domain) are loading up this site. This is likely due to a misconfiguration somewhere on the server (unless your wildcard hostname is specifically pointed to this website).
What to do?
Fixing #1 (delete the wildcard hostname) will also address #2.