Early Review of draft-davids-forsalereg-09
review-davids-forsalereg-09-dnsdir-early-gannon-2025-06-17-00

Reviewer: James Gannon
Review Result: Ready with Issues
Document: draft-davids-forsalereg-09
Review Type: DNS Directorate Technical Review
Review Date: 17 June 25

Summary:
This document defines an operational convention for indicating that a domain
name is available for sale by publishing a reserved leaf node using the
underscored label "_for-sale". The convention is simple, uses established DNS
practices for underscored labels, and is should have minimal/no impact on
normal domain operations.

Technical Review:
From a DNS technical perspective, the use of a reserved underscored label for
meta-information is consistent with existing conventions. Placing this label as
a leaf node ensures it does not interfere with delegations or services. I have
no technical objections to the mechanism as specified; it is clear and should
not pose operational issues. I have a concern about the potential proliferation
of use of this mechansim however vs using existing options such as TXT records.

Process Concern:
However, the proposed convention is generic and has clear potential to become
widely adopted across registrars and domain owners. This means it may become a
de facto standard. Given this, I believe this work would benefit from broader
community discussion and review within the DNSOP, rather than progressing
solely via the Independent Stream. Doing so would ensure consensus and
consistency with other reserved-label practices.

Recommendation:
Technical: No issues.
Process: Recommend that this work be brought to DNSOP for community discussion
and potential standardization.

James Gannon
DNS Directorate Reviewer