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

[Mark Andrews]

> On 14 Dec 2020, at 11:47, Royce Williams <royce at techsolvency.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Then complain / move registrar and demand your money back because they failed
to deliver a service FIT FOR PURPOSE.  

> Royce
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