On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Mark Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > Whois contact details need to work so you can contact the zone owner when > the DNS is broken for the zone. > > Publishing Whois data in the zone does not work for this purpose. > > This is not to discount other reasons for having a independent > communications channel. >
Note that the current draft gTLD WHOIS mechanism to abide by GDPR includes a communications channel that one can use to contact a domain owner, a web form. So this is ability is not being taken away for specific domains. But if someone finds out a vulnerability and needs a mass-scale delivery system to notify affected parties, then this wouldn't work. Also of notice is that if DNS resolution is working, a website or mail services points to an IP address somewhere. And that still provides reachability. So except for the broken DNS zone use case, a good number of cases have other means to achieve the same goals. Rubens
