Comment by jurgenaut23

16 hours ago

I am probably missing something, but how DNS TXT updates can be made difficult to automate?

We can get creative. quick ideas: Send it by printed post. pass it around people to people. an email needs to be added in with some process, and can only get one TXT update value a week.

Many ways of adding friction to obtaining the updatable value - which a human owning a domain would be happy to do, but a squatter would not want to.

  • > Send it by printed post

    that's how one of my local companies tries to force clients in. They removed auth code from their web panels and introduced complex snail-mail procedure.

    That was clear signal to run, but it took me 6 months to do just the domain transfer.