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No, it does not. The webserver that serves antifa.com, by namecheap.com, redirects to whitehouse.gov. It's a HTTP redirect, not on DNS level.

> curl -v antifa.com

* Connected to antifa.com (192.64.119.246) port 80 (#0)

GET / HTTP/1.1

Host: antifa.com

Accept: /

* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse

HTTP/1.1 302 Found

Server: nginx

Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:03:08 GMT

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Content-Length: 45

Connection: keep-alive

Location: https://whitehouse.gov

X-Served-By: Namecheap URL Forward

<a href='https://whitehouse.gov'>Found</a>.

The server that whitehouse.gov resolves to would return a "The requested URL is invalid" for other domains

> curl --header "Host: antifa.com" whitehouse.gov

<HTML><HEAD>

<TITLE>Invalid URL</TITLE>

</HEAD><BODY>

<H1>Invalid URL</H1> The requested URL "&#91;no&#32;URL&#93;", is invalid.<p> Reference&#32;&#35;9&#46;ab93292&#46;39421929&#46;7a92425 </BODY></HTML>

Yes, a significant technical difference. But the people who fall for it won't know the difference.