[77513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Registrars serve no useful purpose
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Sat Jan 22 16:28:43 2005
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:28:05 -0800
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
To: Joe Rhett <jrhett@meer.net>
Cc: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050122011609.GB36097@meer.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Joe Rhett wrote:
>>What if a company doesn't want to deal with
>>any registrar? What if they just want to
>>register their domain name and have it stay registered.
>
> I really can't think of any domain name registrant that this statement
> doesn't apply to -- even the spammers.
>
> <shrug> The purpose is so that someone can do all the "paperwork" for when
> that customer needs to change something ;-)
The alternative is dealing with VGRS directly, and with apologies to the
Verisign employees here who I'm sure aren't directly responsible for some of
the extremely net-unfriendly activities Verisign has perpetrated lately, I
wouldn't want to deal with the company myself.
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