<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Jim Popovitch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jimpop@gmail.com" target="_blank">jimpop@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <<a href="mailto:ietf-dane@dukhovni.org">ietf-dane@dukhovni.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 07:44:27PM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I have to try....<br>
>><br>
>> The awesome DNSViz system could be much more awesome with automatic<br>
>> notifications to whois Tech contact when a failure is detected,<br>
>> please.<br>
><br>
> For many domains the whois contact information is only available<br>
> via HTTPs behind captchas or not at all. And even when available,<br>
> the addresses often bounce or are delivered to mailboxes nobody<br>
> reads.<br>
><br>
> Discovering a working contact for a domain can take considerable<br>
> effort, or not be realistically possible.<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>Alternatively, this could be a valuable incentive for people to fix<br>
whois faults/problems/encumberments.<br>
<br>
-Jim P.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>I assume that using the email address in the SOA record would also not always work, but at least it is easy to read, so perhaps that one should at least be attempted.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Bob Harold</div><div><br></div></div><br></div></div>