Confirmed, a testing process that went awry, here is the official text those of you that received emails will get as an explanation
"You may have received an email from the CIRA Registry Platform over the past two days with the subject line: subjecTest with a link to softwaresecured.com. This...
All, we are investigating the Message Delivery Form emails some of you have been receiving and it would appear there was a testing process by a third party that went awry. Once we have the details we will reach out to each of you individually and will post here
The message above is a legitimate request through the Message Delivery Form. CIRA does not audit or monitor content of these messages but we do verify the email address of the sender before sending the message to the registrant email on file. The process is something like... requestor fills in...
@MapleDots the email is a collaboration with Godaddy and it would appear there is a bug in the domain selection, you should not be seeing WHC registered domains in that notice, I will investigate.