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Re: Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server trouble?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Tue Feb 18 20:39:13 1997

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 20:37:53 -0500
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
To: crusso@alink.net (Chris Russo)
Cc: Karl Denninger  <karl@Mcs.Net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v02140b1daf2ff1f4b577@[207.135.64.133]>

> As was mentioned before, you shouldn't have to pay an ISP to have a domain
> name reserved.

I don't see why "having a domain name reserved" need be the same thing
as "having NS records in the root nameservers".  Why not just allow
registrations that reserve a domain administratively and simply have
it not exist in the DNS?
-- 
Shields, CrossLink.

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