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Comment by bovermyer | Hacker News Reader

Due diligence: who runs this and why should I trust them?

Hosted at diva-e datacenters GmbH [1] Netblock registration [2] and the domain uses privacy protection for whois under GoDaddy. [3]

[1] - https://bgp.he.net/ip/84.200.69.80

[2] - https://bgp.he.net/ip/84.200.69.80#_whois

[3] - https://bgp.he.net/dns/dns.watch#_whois

And the site is hosted on Digital Ocean: https://www.nslookup.io/dns-records/dns.watch

Sorry how did you determine they're running on DO? I only see ns30.dns4pro.com. like records under NS

They did a forward lookup of dns.watch then looked up the IP. [1]

[1] - https://bgp.he.net/ip/46.101.124.30

initially behind this project was a hosting company called Ideal-Hosting UG (haftungsbeschränkt) which then changed its name to IAMONSYS GmbH, and in 2018 ceased to operate.

https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2014-Aug...

https://web.archive.org/web/20181229211752/https://iamonsys....

https://german-hoeffner.net/about/projects

Agreed. Pointing your DNS at an untrusted provider is asking for your connections to be hijacked.

Look at the sponsors page

The one that's empty?

And if for example companies now donate, does that now make it trustable?

Quad9 seems to be a valid 501 org, there must be an equivalent in germany?

The irony being that for us (Quad9) the majority of the tinfoil-hat complaints are that companies donating to a non-profit make it _less_ trustworthy. Can't win either way. :-)

Below the BTC address is a link to a blog which is actually the personal page of somebody who claims in "projects" that dns.watch is his project.

Indeed, that also matches with the name on the AS ("formerly Ideal-Hosting UG"). Risky to run something without imprint in Germany.

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