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Comment by Aachen

2 years ago

Why does your registrar need to proxy this? How it could work is that you simply create

    owner IN TXT Max Mustermann
    email IN TXT mustermax@example.org

Or some other class, so that keys can't clash (already exist), similar to how version.bind is partitioned into the chaos class

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stavros  2 years ago

Because you can just lie much more easily than your registrar can.

  • Aachen  2 years ago

    If they need legally valid information, they can subpoena the registrar. My phone number and home IP address also don't have a name, address, and email address attached; if someone wants to find who's behind a number, you need to have a reason which a judge will check (or perhaps a public prosecutor depending on if the operator is buddies with the police and it's a criminal offence). Would be kind of crazy if every website you visit gets your full details and can start sending advertisements or harass you for posting something they didn't like. Same for a domain name

    And that's besides the point that the registrar doesn't check this information. If you wanted to lie, they're not stopping you from getting false info into whois (or any alternative)

    If it needs to be authentic, then DNS does have signatures nowadays, or a delegation as iirc you mentioned already. I just don't know why it should be more authentic than the unverified information that's currently in whois

  • account42  2 years ago

    The domain owner already provides this information to the registrar and is responsible for keeping it up to date.