aparchitects.co.uk

Google Analytics tracking script pasted into DNS

$ dig TXT aparchitects.co.uk

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;aparchitects.co.uk. IN TXT


;; ANSWER SECTION:

aparchitects.co.uk. 3600 IN TXT "<script>(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async…"

A full Universal Analytics tracking snippet — complete with the `(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m)` IIFE — was pasted into a DNS TXT record. Google Analytics has never and will never read a DNS TXT record. The script silently does nothing.

<script>(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)}(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'));</script>