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What if someone were to maintain an unofficial list with one domain per line, freely available as a daily torrent or served directly? Would there be a rights pr
by vortico 11y ago
What if someone were to maintain an unofficial list with one domain per line, freely available as a daily torrent or served directly? Would there be a rights problem with mirroring and filtering ICANN data?
- ajcr 11y agoUnfortunately, as part of the application you are compelled to sign forms promising that you won't make "significant" parts of the zone file publicly available in any way (at least this was my experience when applying to Verisign for .com and .net zone file access).
- vortico 11y agoI see. Oh well.
- latenightcoding 11y agoSame question here
- kyriakos 11y agoisn't it essentially public data though?
- radicalbyte 11y agoWhy not just upload it to Github? Then you only need to send the deltas for every update.
- r3bl 11y agoI was just thinking of creating a bot that will update the list(s) and push the changes back on GitHub every day. But first, I definitely have to see if it's against GitHub's terms of service.
- radicalbyte 11y agoI think that GitHub would love the publicity personally. They strike me as being very savvy regards this sort of thing ;)
- pyvpx 11y agodoes GitHub need any publicity? honest question as I've found that anyone who would ever use the functionality GitHub provides is already very aware of git and GitHub.
- allannienhuis 11y agopeople shift between services like github and bitbucket and alternatives all the time. Perhaps not often on an individual basis, but at any one time many people are deciding where to put their stuff. Almost anything that gets the name of a particular service bumped up to the top of someone's consciousness for a little while will shift some of those decisions toward that service. This is why even the world's most popular brands (Apple, Coke, etc) never stop spending money on marketing / PR :)
- scandinavian 11y agoA lot of tlds don't provide zone files unless you are a registrar. They would probably not be happy if someone put those out to the pubic. For com and the likes they would probably not care as much. The best public list of domains I have found is the Project Sonar DNS (ANY) scans. I don't know how they do it, but their scans are pretty complete, at least for.dk domains, which are the ones I use. https://scans.io/study/sonar.fdns https://scans.io/study/sonar.fdns
- ndr 11y agoIt's quite slow to download from that site, I guess there are a lot of HN readers consuming their bandwidth :)
- scandinavian 11y agoTheir download speeds are often bad sadly, they really should provide a torrent. But it's free and they have some really interesting datasets, so it's worth the wait.
- ausjke 11y agoI started to look at this one week ago, wish it provide some restful api for this useful database
- SmokyBorbon 11y agoIt could be used to create a competing system. ICANN would never allow this. If someone tried to put this together, I think they would quickly find their access to the data revoked.