On Sat, Oct 31, 2026 at 10:14 AM John R. Levine via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
According to Kevin Tillery via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org>:
Hopefully this helps the registry to discover that the domain is being boarded, contrary to ToS, and terminate it without refund so we can have less hoarded domains everywhere. Assuming you mean "hoarded", I would be quite interested in pointers to ToS that forbid it, or even define it.
Registrars and TLDs don't in general have a rule that you cannot buy many domains and list many for sale. It would probably be more useful for helping establish domain reputation metrics anti-abuse. For example; A domain that is currently reporting that it is for sale is probably a higher-risk domain to accept traffic related to. Also, If the domain changes underlying legal owners or registrants, then Ideally it should be treated the same as a new domain registration: Ensure that any built-up positive reputation is removed/reset, and the Old domain holder might have gotten TLS certificates issued which ought to require a forced revalidation after a change in the domain's ownership. [Currently when a domain is bought in an auction the "Create date" can stay 1999, etc. There is a lack of the true age the current owner/instance of a sold domain has] It would actually be useful if the domain registries were required to publish much more info on domains and domain holders than "whether it is for sale". For example, the Tenure start and End timestamps of the underlying owners and contacts (Not whatever "privacy" proxy can be listed in WHOIS) The actual country-code regions' of every domains' underlying registrant, payment method, and contacts. The actual number of updates of each type for a domain's current registration year. Renew term (number years), and the Counts of domains that have underlying contacts or accounts in common. [For example, the account that holds this domain has 100 other domains in it and the same billing entity holds 20 other domains] In machine-readable format. I don't know, perhaps they could use a DNS hierarchy like a example._domaininfo.com. TXT "[protobuf structure]" to denote basic registration metadata for example.com. In a way that can be queried without needing additional network protocols such as WHOIS. -- -JA