The Domain Name Registrant, technical contact, or administrative contact (or the equivalent under a ccTLD) as listed in the WHOIS record of the Base Domain Name or in a DNS SOA record, or as obtained through direct contact with the Domain Name Registrar.
Meanwhile, this section specifically states that the contact is not the domain contact, but rather the domain name being validated.
So maybe if folks agree with me, this be renamed from 3.2.2.4.4 Constructed Email to Domain Contact, to 3.2.2.4.4 Constructed Email to the Authorization Domain Name. Or, maybe Constructed email to a reserved address
Domain Contact is defined as:
The Domain Name Registrant, technical contact, or administrative contact (or the equivalent under a ccTLD) as listed in the WHOIS record of the Base Domain Name or in a DNS SOA record, or as obtained through direct contact with the Domain Name Registrar.
Meanwhile, this section specifically states that the contact is not the domain contact, but rather the domain name being validated.
So maybe if folks agree with me, this be renamed from
3.2.2.4.4 Constructed Email to Domain Contact
, to3.2.2.4.4 Constructed Email to the Authorization Domain Name
. Or, maybeConstructed email to a reserved address
Relevant sections:
https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/blob/ba28d04894d69c8fac62850b9d0de5061658c7c5/docs/BR.md#32242-email-fax-sms-or-postal-mail-to-domain-contact (This section uses the word
domain contact
correctly)https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/blob/ba28d04894d69c8fac62850b9d0de5061658c7c5/docs/BR.md#32244-constructed-email-to-domain-contact (This section, in my opinion, uses it incorrectly)
This is specifically a problem if we treat
Domain Contact
as a reserved/well-defined word. And In my opinion, we should, as it's explicitly defined in the definitions section of the BRs: https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/blob/ba28d04894d69c8fac62850b9d0de5061658c7c5/docs/BR.md#161-definitions)