[dns-operations] The strange case of fox.com

[Mark Andrews]

In message <3E099065-C9D4-46BF-B1F3-DC2EA9B9ED35 at nic.br>, Rubens Kuhl writes:
> >
> > That sounds like a strawman.  Sane businesses will do what banks
> > do these days and have words saying "We will never send you a link"
> > or similar.
> >
> > "You have 28 days to correct this or your domain name will be removed.
> > Please login into you account and fix it.
> >
> > $REGISTRAR will never ask you to click on a link via email."
> >
> > so their customers can detect when they are being phished.  Yes
> > phishing is a threat but one which all businesses should be aware
> > of and should be taking steps to see that their customers are not
> > exposed by their correspondence.
> >
> > If the registry was to do send the messages it would be something like
> >
> > ... Please contact $REGISTRAR to update your records.
>
>
> The problem here is that the registry doesn't know where the point of
> sale was actually $REGISTRAR, $RESELLER or $RESELLERof$RESELLER.
> Referring generically to "point of sale" is what I'm trying in compliance
> notices, with varying effectiveness.

It just needs to be a database entry.
 
> Rubens
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