[66227] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: example.com/net/org DNS records
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bill)
Sun Jan 4 21:57:14 2004
From: bill <bmanning@karoshi.com>
To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:57:07 -0800 (PST)
Cc: bmanning@karoshi.com (bill), marquis@roble.com (Roger Marquis),
nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu, spamtools@lists.abuse.net
In-Reply-To: <E1AdJu9-0007Ed-0e@ran.psg.com> from "Randy Bush" at Jan 04, 2004 05:51:40 PM
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
>
Ok... IANA has paid the registration fees for those
domains in the past, I have no idea what the current
situation is. Now I know that paying for something
does not always equate to ownership, but that is a
common perception. as usual, YMMV.
--bill
