[7652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Just got on this thing (perhaps very belatedly) - root server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rusty H. Hodge)
Tue Feb 18 21:14:56 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970218164100.27717B-100000@wacky.eit.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 17:58:51 -0800
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Rusty H. Hodge" <rusty@hodge.com>
At 4:44 PM -0800 2/18/97, Matt Ranney wrote:
>Don't get me wrong, if NSI isn't getting paid to keep all those
>domains in the database, then they shouldn't be there, but it doesn't
>seem like as big a problem as Karl is making it out to be.
NSI's bookkeeping is so confused, they're really not sure who has paid and
who hasn't. From what I can tell, they are only deleting domains that
haven't paid in about 6 months AND do not have authoratative nameservice
working. And it appears of that domain has a registered nameserver in its
namespace, then even if the nameserver isn't responding it does not get
removed.
My theory is their database is so screwed up and in such a fragile state,
they're scared to make any big changes to it. Removing a domain with a
registered nameserver in it seems like it is a "big change".
Add the the fact that they are showing non-payment for many domains that
have actually made payment, they don't want to shut off the domain while
trying to sort out the paperwork.
