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by dane-pgp 1576 days ago
Maybe there should be some metadata that indicates whether a renewal is approved by the previous owner. That might require some extra administration by domain registrars and probably couldn't be applied retrospectively, but it would be useful.

The other place where this potentially matters is CAs issuing TLS certificates for domains that expire before the certificate does. If they detect that a domain they have issued a certificate for has been subsequently registered by a new entity, they should revoke the old certificate.

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You might as well use something out-of-band to verify emails, like PGP.