Re: [dane] domain hijacking

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 13 April 2017 03:11 UTC

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> If my suspicion is correct, has there
>been thought of re-signing the DS record signed with the older private key
>in a way that proves ownership through the key change?

This sounds to me like shutting the barn door after the horse is gone.

If it's important to you that your domain isn't hijacked, we all know
what to do, pick a registrar with good security and 2FA and so forth,
and monitor your own DNS with alarms if there are unauthorized changes.

Also, if we were to invent some sort of change signing, now you have
the other problem where the guy with the private key quits and takes
it with him, and you have to rebootstrap the zone somehow.

R's,
John