On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 3:30 PM John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]> you write: > >On Sun, 13 Dec 2020, Randy Bush wrote: > >> i find this extremely frustrating. i realize that i am a dinosaur, but > >> i really want a usable response to a whois query. compare > > > >I would just like to be able to publish whois information if I /choose/ > >to rather than, for instance, Hover's broken "whois privacy" toggle which > >toggles but doesn't do anything. > > I've talked to Tucows management and been part of the endless ICANN > WHOIS process. The combination at ICANN of extreme overcautiousness > and (from some parties) self-serving misunderstandings of the issue > are quite impressive. > > >I've fallen back to TXT records; why the heck not, they're overloaded for > >a bunch of "prove you love me" epics already. > > What's wrong with RP records? That's what they're for. > > $ host -t rp taugh.com > taugh.com has RP record hostmaster.iecc.com. rp.services.net.
If you're using registrar-hosted DNS, many limit you to a drop-down list of record types - and RP is rarely among them, but TXT almost always is. Royce
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