[35922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Top Level Domain Finder Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Mon Mar 19 05:29:39 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:27:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com>
Cc: "[NANOG]" <nanog@merit.edu>
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> >having said that maybe it would be better than icann.. only
> >problem is who has to give them the authority and make everyone abide by
> >it?
>
> You do, along with everyone else that has control over where their DNS
> points (per RFC2826).
100% agree, now we just have to get everyone on nanog to reach the same
conclusion! :-)
Steve
> >On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Patrick Corliss wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com> wrote:
> > > On Sunday, March 18, 2001 8:12 AM (AEST)
> > >
> > > > TLD Finder Tools (collision avoidance tools) are available for people to
> > > > see which TLDs are already "in play":
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ORSC have a Top Level Domain Finder which queries the ORSC root zone:
> > > > http://tldfind.open-rsc.org/
> > > >
> > > > Planet Communications & Computing Facility (PCCF - who run the .GOD
> > > > registry) have a TLD Finder which queries multiple roots:
> > > > http://www.pccf.net/cgi-bin/root-servers/whereis-tld?+
> > > >
> > >
> > > AlterNIC's newest tool
> > > http://www.alternic.org/tldfinder.html
> > >
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Simon Higgs
>
> --
> It's a feature not a bug...
>
