Re: [apps-discuss] "finding registered domains"

Hugo Salgado <hsalgado@nic.cl> Wed, 13 March 2013 17:57 UTC

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On 03/13/2013 11:43 AM, John Levine wrote:
>> I am still not very clear about what the problem is and what the possilbe solution is.
>>
>> Could you kindly summarize it in one or two sentences ?
> 
> I agree that use cases would help a lot.  The ones I'm aware of are:
> 
> * Web cookies: limit how high up the DNS tree a site can promote its cookies.
> 
> * DMARC and other mail authentication: find policy documents for a
> domain given one of its subdomains
> 
> * SSL/TLS certificates: prevent certificate issue for names at or above public
> delegation points
> 
> * Variants: state that two parallel names are under the same management (has
> issues different from the previous three)

Also from Firefox browser:

* domain highlighting in the URL bar

* restricting the setting of the document.domain property (DOM
  same-origin policy)

Hugo