Hi Patrick, apologies for the delay in responding. On 20/12/2017 22:25, Patrick Mevzek wrote: > > > On 20/12/2017 12:08, Gavin Brown wrote: >> Having thought about this topic for a little while, it occurred to me >> that there might be some benefit in a "straw man" proposal for how >> centralised databases of registration data might be avoided. So I wrote >> this Internet-Draft which describes a simple decentralised alternative >> to Whois/RDAP directories. >> >> Obviously it is far from a perfect solution, but I have yet to think of >> any criticism of it that does not equally to Whois/RDAP as they >> currently exist. So I have published my draft for feedback. > > What do you do for domain names that are registered but not technically > used, meaning no delegation in DNS? > In that case you can not publish URI records in their zone (except if > there is a way to have the registry publish it instead in its zone, like > it does for glues), nor having a webserver reply for the website under > this domain.
The registry could publish the URI record, but I think this is not the best option. WHOAMI is not a complete replacement for WHOIS; because it cannot provide the technical metadata about the domain (ie creation date, expiry date, sponsoring registrar, etc). So a registry which allows its registrants to deploy WHOAMI will still need a "thin" WHOIS or RDAP service. In this situation, a client which wants to look up a suspended domain can use the nameservers (and glue if any) provided by the parent registry's WHOIS/RDAP service and query them directly for the URI (or the address records of the web server when falling back to the well-known URL). G. -- Gavin Brown Chief Technology Officer CentralNic Group plc (LSE:CNIC) Innovative, Reliable and Flexible Registry Services for ccTLD, gTLD and private domain name registries https://www.centralnic.com/ CentralNic Group plc is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 8576358. Registered Offices: 35-39 Moorgate, London, EC2R 6AR.
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