Re: getting TLDs to fix other people's problems

Jay Daley <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Dec 2014 08:54:30 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.dnsext
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> On 21/12/2014, at 10:47 pm, Jim Reid <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Most registrars do not want registries to contact registrants - ever. Registrars like to have total control over the communications to their registrants, usually to the point where the registrant is unaware of the registry's existence. Quite a few ccTLD registries have policies which forbid the registry from contacting the registrant.

Indeed.

We (.nz) are just about to launch a redesigned registrar portal that includes notifying registrars about 'bad' data, where 'bad' data includes errors we see in our zone scan (some example classification below) and also errors we see in the registrant data.  There's no obligation on the registrars to do anything with this data but in beta testing we saw most of them act on the data, where they could, because they wanted to be 'good' registrars.  Of course they could all do this scanning themselves but it's not a high enough priority for them to write the code themselves and it turns out that they are pleased that we are doing it for them.

To be clear, we are one of those registries where our policy forbids us from contacting registrants but that doesn't matter here because in our view there would be no point at all in contacting registrants with this same information.  The only gap is third party DNS providers but we'll get round to them at some point.

cheers
Jay


Domains with broken delegation
Domains with lame delegations
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Domains with extra nameserver at child
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Domains with inconsistent serial numbers
Domains with missing glue at child
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Jay Daley
Chief Executive
.nz Registry Services (New Zealand Domain Name Registry Limited)
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