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Comment by regecks

I mean, it's kind of overstated to call it rogue. A new feature of Github hosting, sure. It's a pretty common practice to do it automatically in hosting and CDNs. cPanel does it, Cloudflare does it (by themselves adding up to 10-20+% of all certificates currently trusted), a immeasurable number of SaaS-es and blogging/ecommerce platforms do it. I saw one user freak out when FastMail started doing it too for domains pointed to their static hosting.

From a Web PKI perspective I feel it's fine. DV is DV after all.

I do always create CAA records for my owns domains though, even if it's just:

    issue ";"
    issuewild ";"
parent regecks 8 years ago

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