9 May
2022
9 May
'22
10:58 p.m.
It appears that Ray Bellis <ray@bellis.me.uk> said:
Is there any case law where someone has asserted a database right for a DNS zone?
It seems like a rather stupid thing to do. If someone asserted such a right, I would make sure not to infringe it by ensuring no entries from that database entered my DNS caches or other software.
It wasn’t the zone itself as such - the concern was use of enumerated zone data to then perform bulk collection of Whois data.
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. R's, John