Joe, The comment was passed along to me in a private conversation. The source is reputable but not directly involved in the transaction. It's best treated as a rumor, to be replaced with definitive information. I debated about passing this along before verifying it carefully because (a) several of you are in a much better position than I am to track this down, and (b) I trusted the source had a strong basis for their comment. Steve On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 10:34 AM Joe Abley <jabley@strandkip.nl> wrote:
Hi Steve,
On 27 Jun 2024, at 16:09, Steve Crocker <steve@shinkuro.com> wrote:
At the beginning of this TPR WG I raised the issue of preservation of DNSSEC status when a domain registration is transferred. There wasn't much interest, and this issue was generally treated as out of scope for this WG.
Google Domains' sale of its registrations to Squarespace apparently resulted in *all* of the registrations becoming unsigned. The numbers are big enough to have resulted in a *drop* in the overall count of signed domain names, and hence a topic of conversation.
Removal of DS RRDATA at the registry by a registrar uncoupled from a corresponding request from a registrar sounds like a RAA compliance issue.
However, the text and link that you cited states that delegations won't be affected, which presumably implies that DS RRDATA would remain intact; the delegation is, after all, the union of both the NS and the DS RRSet above the zone cut. Is the information from Google incorrect? Do you you have a reference for "all of the registrations becoming unsigned"?
Joe
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