Dear Claves,

Maybe many CAs (like SwissSign) are not using WHOIS anymore and thus don't 
reply to this thread. 😉

Rgds
Roman

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On 
Behalf Of Claves Nostrum
Sent: Freitag, 13. September 2024 14:01
To: [email protected]
Cc: Hanno Böck <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Sources of Domain Contact Information?

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.

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