[59177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more on lame-delegation.org, seems to waste IP space and DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william@elan.net)
Tue Jun 17 10:46:47 2003
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 05:03:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: william@elan.net
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030617143217.GA82735@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
For all top-level domains you can register a domain and not have any
name servers specified for it. In whois it'll say exactly that -
"no nameservers".
I'd be very much against removing these domains from root zones entirely,
but I maybe biased since I use these zone files for my own software.
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:05:17PM -0700, william@elan.net wrote:
> > If what they are doing is not ok, what would you propose?
>
> This is a bit of a sideways step, but...
>
> I'm sure a lot of people would like to be able to register a zone
> and not point it at any nameservers, and not even have it appear
> in the top level zone files. Many people "sit" on a zone for many
> reasons, and in most cases having to point them at a nameserver
> just to register it is pointless and stupid.
>
> If a domain could exist in that state, then these domains could
> just have the lame name servers removed from their records, possibly
> existing with no nameservers, until the owner pointed them at the
> right place.
>
