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Tony Webster: Investigating using domain & SSL info

Minnesota-based freelance journalist Tony Webster is somebody you should follow on Twitter . He's been mining public records and other info to provide additional insight into what's going on in Minneapolis (my home town) right now. You should check out his website , too. One thing that really caught my eye was this: Using domain registrations, security certificates, and Shodan to bre…
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Do you care about WHOIS?

There's an effort underway within ICANN where the net result could be that publicly-available domain ownership info is no longer available under any circumstances. Does that strike you as the best way to go? I personally don't think it is. WHOIS is a valuable forensic …

Dynamic Dolphin Dies

Over at Word to the Wise, Laura Atkins reports on Scott Richter's domain registrar Dynamic Dolphin getting its accreditation yanked. I'm not sure why this took so long. This was one of those open secret kind of things that everybody talked about in the hallways at just…