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by elliottinvent 1133 days ago
> Hostile service provider A could request ownership of domain X with some other service B. When you, the owner of domain X, go to register ownership of domain X with A, A can show you the information provided service provider B and end up stealing your domain with B.

This is an interesting attack vector for the current state-of-the-art.

However, you could argue that someone could do the same with the Domain Verification protocol by providing a seemingly useful tool to create a Domain Verification record but secretly hashing the email of the attacker rather than the domain registrant. Since it's hashed (for privacy reasons) there's no way for a normal end-user to realise that.