On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Peter Mott wrote:
The registry is not a record of names that appear in the DNS. The purpose of name registration is to publicly exert a right to the use of the name. Nothing more and nothing less.
I can start a registry tomorrow that allows people the right to assert their use of a name that looks like a domain name. But such a registry is worthless unless the names in it appear (or are going to appear very shortly) in the DNS. I'd argue that unless the name appears in the DNS it shouldn't appear in the registry as its appearance of the name in the DNS that gives the registry any authority it has. You can get into debate about what you put in the DNS if you like but the logic for requiring at least two operational namesservers still stands as fas a I can see. It means that at the time the registration and delegation takes place the registry can check as many details as possible (automatically of course). A single transaction then occurs as the registrars are competent and have it all sorted before they approach the registry. This reduces the cost of the transaction which in turn reduces the cost of registering a domain name which in turn means people see no barrier in registering more domain names which ..... I'd like to see the registry operate on the principle that the names registered are listed in both the registry's database and the DNS (plus or minus the next scheduled update). This implies that the nameservers should be operational and checked at the time of resistration. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog