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I’m not clear how owning a registrar gives them a unique view into domain registrations at other registrars. Does being a registrar come with special privileges
by TechBro8615 4y ago
I’m not clear how owning a registrar gives them a unique view into domain registrations at other registrars. Does being a registrar come with special privileges like programmatic unmasking of “whois protection?”
They also already have a source of DNS traffic to mine for new registrations. Surely a phishing site would show up there fairly soon after registration. So does being a registrar come with more benefits than just timing?
If it does, then shouldn’t the worry be more broadly about Cloudflare potentially abusing this system to deanonymize the owner of _any_ domain, not just those they deem trademark infringing?
- eastdakota 4y agoYou get a feed of what’s registered at a velocity that’s not publicly available. In addition to that, controlling the registrar also allowed us to take advantage of features like registrar and registry locks managed by policies we had full control of. Auditing the policies of other registrars, even the supposedly secure ones, freaked us out enough to spend the money to build our own.
- TechBro8615 4y agoThanks for the reply, and a day later at that :) You really do set a great example. I’m still not clear though, does that feed include Whois protection, or is the real identity of each registrant available to you even if the domain was registered elsewhere?