[66223] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: example.com/net/org DNS records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Jan 4 20:52:18 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:51:40 -0800
To: bill <bmanning@karoshi.com>
Cc: marquis@roble.com (Roger Marquis), nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu,
spamtools@lists.abuse.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> Does anyone know why IANA has assigned NS and A records to the
>> example.{com,org,net,...} domains? They even put up a website
>> at the IP explaining RFC 2606.
> because they are owned by the IANA.
pedantic point:
no, they are not 'owned' by anybody. they are *reserved*, and
should not be used by anybody.
randy
