On Sunday 19 October 2008 16:19:31 Jorge Biquez wrote: > > I for sure do not check if there are changes in any of the domains I > have from clients or mine... I guess that they won't change without > my permission....
Whilst I don't expect domains to change without permission..... I'm always surprised at the rate of churn in DNS set-ups. Running domain checking tools routinely, including all parent domains of the domains I was checking I would see a lot of churn in CCTLD and CCSLD nameservers, often resulting in lameness, or other issues. I think the CCTLD management of a lot of domains has improved since, but there is value in routine checking of DNS configurations. You can catch some problems before they become an issue. > Any comments from others with similar experiences? We once had TUCOWS hand over username and password for a key domain to the wrong person, who then transfered one of our most important domains to Melbourne IT. I think we fell foul here, both of procedures at TUCOWS, and the fact that we provide all DNS management and keep the users away from trying to do it themselves. But also the domain was registered before domain locking, and it hadn't been retrospectively applied to that domain (mea culpa). I think the whole process is overly complex, which is not necessarily TUCOWS fault. As far as I'm aware that is the only episode of unauthorised domain transfer we've had with TUCOWS in many years, which suggests that the process is basically working. Although that doesn't rule out there being an issue, that is the trouble with security, you can only prove weaknesses exist, you can't (usually) prove there aren't any weaknesses. _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
