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The Plan · lesson 1 of 3

The first thirty days

After this lesson you can

Choose the work that ships in a month with no budget and no dependencies.

Assumes you have read The CNAME from 2024.

Thirty days of work that needs no budget, no vendor and no approval beyond a DNS change — and which includes the two live incidents.

Week one

ActionWhy nowOwner
MFA and individual logins on the registrar account; enable transfer lockIt outranks every other finding and takes an hourIT
Resolve the cv-industrial.com signature failure — provider first, remove the DS if not fixed same dayA live outage for validating resolversDNS owner
Capture evidence on all five lookalike domainsUnrecoverable once a host actsSecurity
Report the live phishing domain: host, registrar, and safe-browsing in parallelThe earning window is nowSecurity
Publish rua on all eleven domainsStarts the clock everything else depends onDNS owner
Capture, then remove, the 2024 dangling CNAME — after a CT checkPossible active takeoverDNS owner

Weeks two to four

Resolve every CNAME, NS and MX target in every zone.
   Expect more dangling records than the one in the brief.

Publish the non-sending set on the four parked domains
with no MX:
   v=spf1 -all
   _dmarc  p=reject; sp=reject; np=reject; rua=...
   *._domainkey  v=DKIM1; p=
   MX  0 .

The two parked domains WITH MX: rua only, for a
fortnight. Find out whether anything is reading that
mail before removing the ability to receive it.

Publish CAA on every domain, naming the CA in use.
Publish np=reject everywhere.

Establish the registrar, expiry and registrant of the
.de and .co.uk domains. Start the recovery track.

What is true at day thirty

The registrar account is defensible. A live outage is over. An active phishing campaign has been reported and interrupted. Six of eleven domains have gone from completely open to fully locked down. Reporting is running everywhere, so the sender inventory is accumulating. And nothing has required money or a vendor.

The primary domain has not moved

It is still at p=none after thirty days, and that is correct — the sender inventory does not exist yet, and moving without it is how a company rejects its own invoices. Saying this explicitly at the start prevents it being read as the plan stalling.

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