# Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications | Ars Technica

<https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/google-calls-for-halting-use-of-whois-for-tls-domain-verifications/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I shared in [Weekly Thing 293](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/293/) about the lack of security in WHOIS so this makes sense.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT294: Weekly Thing 294 / Vaporizing, Intelligence, Contraption](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/294/), Briefly

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/google-calls-for-halting-use-of-whois-for-tls-domain-verifications/