They would need to do so in a historically accurate way too, to make sure
that they didn’t validate via Whois during a window where the info was
incorrect, even if it’s correct now. Could be pretty awkward!

Mike

On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 8:01 AM Claves Nostrum <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I am a bit surprised that we have not seen anything from other CA on this,
> Bugzilla's or comments on this discussion, surely others must be affected
> to some extent, which would imply they need to audit whois-issuances for
> TLD's with ""questionable" or invalid whois servers configured in their
> lookup tooling.
>
> Op donderdag 12 september 2024 om 10:25:03 UTC+2 schreef Hanno Böck:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:21:07 +0200
>> Hanno Böck <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > But there's a larger question whether there even is a reliable "source
>> > of truth" for whois servers. Does IANA make any guarantees that the
>> > whois servers they advertise are operational, and under control of the
>> > respective TLD authority?
>>
>> To answer myself: It appears multiple whois servers listed by IANA are
>> not operational.
>> This is true for the following TLDs:
>> cf ci dz ec gn gp hm iq ml na sb tk to uy xn--lgbbat1ad8j xn--mgbtx2b
>> xn--ygbi2ammx
>>
>> It therefore strongly appears to me that there is currently no reliable
>> data source for whois servers, and therefore, it is unclear how domain
>> validation via whois can be implemented securely.
>>
>> --
>> Hanno Böck - Independent security researcher
>> https://itsec.hboeck.de/
>> https://badkeys.info/
>>
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