[dns-operations] Hall of DNS Shame (?)

Jim Popovitch jimpop at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 01:20:28 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 07:44:27PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
>> I have to try....
>>
>> The awesome DNSViz system could be much more awesome with automatic
>> notifications to whois Tech contact when a failure is detected,
>> please.
>
> For many domains the whois contact information is only available
> via HTTPs behind captchas or not at all.  And even when available,
> the addresses often bounce or are delivered to mailboxes nobody
> reads.
>
> Discovering a working contact for a domain can take considerable
> effort, or not be realistically possible.


Alternatively, this could be a valuable incentive for people to fix
whois faults/problems/encumberments.

-Jim P.



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