And if it is, it means that 17% of the folks on the internet are
paying for domains that don't work. Either that, or something else
is broken.
An alternate interpretation might be that 17% (or some portion
thereof) of the domains in .COM are held by domain speculators who
have no intention of paying for them and can't be bothered to provide
DNS for them.
I'm posting here because I feel it is an operational issue; that,
plus I feel there're more folks here who can and will hammer at
InterNIC to start doing something to enforce their policies that
require real, authoritative nameservers.
If nothing else, it might deter casual domain speculators. God forbid
they actually have to configure something before they can register a
domain... No doubt someone would just automate the process, though.
Actually, they are getting rid of that requirement:
8.The requirement for operational service from two DNS servers has been
deleted.
http://rs.internic.net/domain-info/nic-rev03.html
dan
Tons of people have used our domain name servers without
permission. Of course, we don't set up a domain name without
compensation...
Dirk
An alternate interpretation might be that 17% (or some portion
thereof) of the domains in .COM are held by domain speculators who
have no intention of paying for them and can't be bothered to provide
DNS for them.
And a third alternative would be domainholders who have registered and paid
for domain names which they intend to use in the future but have not
gotten around to setting up websites on them yet.
>I'm posting here because I feel it is an operational issue; that,
>plus I feel there're more folks here who can and will hammer at
>InterNIC to start doing something to enforce their policies that
>require real, authoritative nameservers.
Internic's Domain Dispute Resolution Policy, Rev 2 [1], required two
operational nameservers; in Rev 3 [2], they've dropped that requirement.
They're still listing it in the FAQ [3], tho. It seems unclear whether
they intend it to be a policy or not...
Lisa
1: http://rs.internic.net/domain-info/nic-rev02.html
2: http://rs.internic.net/domain-info/nic-rev03.html
3: http://rs.internic.net/faq/name_servers.html
Lisa Lorenzin
Webmaster / System Administrator
TriNet Services, Inc.
lisa@trinet.com
Tons of people have used our domain name servers without permission.
I periodically audit the zones which claim to be served here. For those
which have been delegated lamely, I create a *primary* zone
@ 7200 IN SOA my.server. hostmaster.my.server. (
9401090 ; serial
7200 ; refresh every two hours
3600 ; retry every hour
2592000 ; expire in 30 days
7200 ) ; default TTL of one day
NS MY.SERVER.
MX 0 lame.delegation.to.MY.SERVER.
* MX 0 lame.delegation.to.MY.SERVER.
randy