[133043] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Domain shut downs by Registrar?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Fri Dec 3 13:39:23 2010
Date: 3 Dec 2010 13:39:15 -0500
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Florian Weimer" <fweimer@bfk.de>
In-Reply-To: <82y686pvz5.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I think Verisign DBMS acts as a registrar for ccTLDs.
No, they're a registry. Not the same thing.
The registry holds the definitive database and manages the DNS zone.
Registrars face the public and use some sort of API to pass the changes to
the registry.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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