9 May
2022
9 May
'22
11:09 p.m.
It's perfectly reasonable to claim a database right in the WHOIS data, but the offense is scraping WHOIS, not enumerating the DNS zone.
I could enumerate the DNS zone twice a day every day and so long as I stayed away from WHOIS, nobody would notice or care.
The zone file could be seen as an accessory to the database rip-off. For instance, it would be hard to see such a dependency on Alexa 1M top domains, since they are already enumerated. But some spam actors deliberately compared zone file editions to single out additions, and then harass the owners of newly registered domains, both by e-mail and phone. A wrench can be a tool or a weapon, depending on how one uses it. Rubens