TheInfosec types concerned over strange NordVPN app traffic

So,whats the story here?

Did ya know Chrome makes random DNS requests at startup too? At first I thought it was thread or dll injection by malware or a bad extension. Turns out they're just making sure it gets nxdomain instead of a redirect to an isp sponsored parked page.

Either way,it looks funny but it isn't bad. It wouldn't be too difficult to see the logic behind the app generating this traffic I'd think.