on Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 09:57:58AM -0700, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote: > WHO do I contact when I have problems related to a domain..
I've been creating patterns based on PTR records and associating classifications with them as an anti-spam and anti-abuse mechanism for almost eighteen years, and now have around 96.7% of IPv4 (and some IPv6 but those are mostly multi-homed mail servers with the same name as the IPv4) classified. This means that I've done easily three hundred thousand WHOIS lookups, probably far more, over the years. The GDPR is my nemesis. One of the data points I collect is the entity responsible for a given domain. I also think it makes sense that if you have $domain you ought to be able to visit $domain in a browser, but my expectations are pretty much constantly disappointed. What makes matters worse is that many TLDs don't have a functional WHOIS service, and many others have such useless information that it is often impossible to find out the name of the entity that owns the domain. Brazil usually has an "owner" but not a corporate description; Argentina usually just has a registration number as the owner; many other Latin American countries' domains just have a network engineer as the sole contact information in WHOIS. Much of Eastern Europe is similar, and for some reason Poland often has records where the name of the org is followed by the name of some other network engineer (eg, Foo Bar Baz s.p. z o.o Stanislaw Wojciehowicz). That's if there is any information at all other than a confirmation that the domain has been registered. Germany is a nightmare because of the GDPR; probably the only useful and reliable WHOIS service is Canada's, where they often also tell you what sort of organization owns the domain, which I find very helpful. What's most annoying about the whole situation is that I can often find out what I need to know about an IP by doing an rwhois lookup, so the GDPR masking domain WHOIS is essentially useless as a form of information privacy. Total policy fail. Oh, also, there is apparently an ISP or telco for every fourteen people in Brazil, which just compounds the frustration. So many lookups. -- hesketh.com/inc. v: +1(919)834-2552 f: +1(919)834-2553 w: http://hesketh.com/ Internet security and antispam hostname intelligence: http://enemieslist.com/ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
