What is a Stale domain?

question there are some domains marked as stale on the domains page what does this mean? answer hexiosec asm may mark some domains as stale in the results of a scan domains will be marked as stale if they have been identified, but do not have a dns entry, i e they are not 'live' and have no associated ip address stale domains will not typically have risks associated with them, as they are not live they can still provide details of information found by hexiosec asm the following scenarios can result in stale domains historic domains for which there is historic data, but no references in current scan data public found in public open source data, such as certificate registration logs not public previously found in a scan, but have since been removed referenced referenced in live scan data, e g domains listed as alternate name in a certificate chained sub domains found as part of a live sub domain, e g the sub domain b c com would be stale if it is not live, but a b c com is live