you need to think in a different plane of isolation. i would say the pure machiavellian manager is a lone wolf in that the relationships hold no weight as interpersonal relationships, only as functional relationships - no different to how you would manage and integrate code.
It’s clear that the discussion has stretched the metaphor of wolves far beyond its breaking point.
The point was that developers (or indeed people in general) do not work the way wolves do, and I’m not reading great arguments to the contrary.
So, no one competent is going to do this, domains are not encrypted by HTTPS, any sensitive info is pushed to the URL Path.
I think being controlling of domain names is a sign of a good sysadmin, it's also a bit schizophrenic, but you gotta be a little schizophrenic to be the type of sysadmin that never gets hacked.
That said, domains not leaking is one of those "clean sheet" features that you go for no reason at all, and it feels nice, but if you don't get it, it's not consequential at all. It's like driving at exactly 50mph, like having a green streak on github. You are never going to rely on that secrecy if only because some ISP might see that, but it's 100% achievable that no one will start pinging your internal host and start polluting your hosts (if you do domain name filtering).
So what I'm saying is, I appreciate this type of effort, but it's a bit dramatic. Definitely uninstall whatever junk leaked your domain though, but it's really nothing.
Btw, in this case it can’t be paranoia since the belief was not irrational - the author was being watched.