Google suggests sunsetting WHOIS domain ownership verification
WHOIS data has been key for verifying the ownership and rightful endpoint of that data for a long time, serving as a public ...
Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications
The formal proposal calls for reliance on WHOIS data to “sunset” in early November. It establishes specifically that “CAs ...
Meta acquires the Threads.com domain name
Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on4. Users on ...
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Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have
The domain was once the official home of the authoritative WHOIS server for .mobi, a top-level domain used to indicate that a website is optimized for mobile devices. At some point—it’s not ...
CSOonline24d
TLS security subverted due to CA use of outdated WHOIS servers
For example, a quick Google search reveals several forums where developers have asked how to get a list of all the WHOIS servers and responders have suggested various such lists. There is also an ...
Retail Insider1d
The Secret Sauce to Retail Success: Choosing the Perfect Domain Name
NameSilo is a leading domain registrar that offers a seamless domain name search process, making it easy for retailers to ...
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Security company watchTowr has reported that it has discovered a vulnerability that could allow any site with the '.mobi'
They immediately acquired the dotmobiregistry.net domain. When the research team set up a whois server at whois.dotmobiregistry.net, where the whois server was originally hosted, it received more ...