[59197] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more on lame-delegation.org, seems to waste IP space and DNS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Jun 17 20:50:44 2003
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:50:21 -0400
Cc: william@elan.net, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>,
nanog@merit.edu
To: John Brown <jmbrown@chagresventures.com>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030617101807.A96707@jedi.staff.chagres.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 12:18 Canada/Eastern, John Brown wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:03:07AM -0700, william@elan.net wrote:
>>
>> 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".
>
> Not correct, registrar and registry agreements require at least two
> name servers.
Any registry that supports RRP (Verisign Registry, PIR) or even
slightly old drafts of EPP must allow domains to be registered with no
host objects, since there is no other way to allow domains with
subordinate nameservers to be created in the registry (the required
procedure is create-domain-with-no-nameservers,
create-subordinate-hosts, add-nameservers-to-domain). Domains with no
nameservers can't appear in the corresponding registry zone, since no
delegation is possible.
Note this is registry functionality made available to registrars, and
does not necessarily imply functionality available to registrants.
Joe
