FWIW, `something.*.example.com` would never be a valid wildcard in any DNS system. A wildcard needs

FWIW, something.*.example.com would never be a valid wildcard in any DNS system. A wildcard needs to be the leftmost part of the record:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_DNS_record
A wildcard DNS record is a record in a DNS zone that will match requests for non-existent domain names. A wildcard DNS record is specified by using a * as the leftmost label (part) of a domain name, e.g. *.example.com. The exact rules for when a wildcard will match are specified in RFC 1034, but the rules are neither intuitive nor clearly specif...
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