[dns-operations] Monitoring for impending expiration of domains?

[Royce Williams]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:30 PM John Levine <johnl at taugh.com> wrote:

> In article <alpine.LSU.2.21.2012131528250.19941 at flame.m3047> you write:
> >On Sun, 13 Dec 2020, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> i find this extremely frustrating.  i realize that i am a dinosaur, but
> >> i really want a usable response to a whois query.  compare
> >
> >I would just like to be able to publish whois information if I /choose/
> >to rather than, for instance, Hover's broken "whois privacy" toggle which
> >toggles but doesn't do anything.
>
> I've talked to Tucows management and been part of the endless ICANN
> WHOIS process. The combination at ICANN of extreme overcautiousness
> and (from some parties) self-serving misunderstandings of the issue
> are quite impressive.
>
> >I've fallen back to TXT records; why the heck not, they're overloaded for
> >a bunch of "prove you love me" epics already.
>
> What's wrong with RP records?  That's what they're for.
>
> $ host -t rp taugh.com
> taugh.com has RP record hostmaster.iecc.com. rp.services.net.


If you're using registrar-hosted DNS, many limit you to a drop-down list of
record types - and RP is rarely among them, but TXT almost always is.

Royce
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