more on lame-delegation.org, seems to waste IP space and DNS

william at elan.net william at elan.net
Tue Jun 17 12:03:07 UTC 2003


For all top-level domains you can register a domain and not have any
name servers specified for it. In whois it'll say exactly that - 
"no nameservers". 

I'd be very much against removing these domains from root zones entirely, 
but I maybe biased since I use these zone files for my own software.

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> In a message written on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:05:17PM -0700, william at elan.net wrote:
> > If what they are doing is not ok, what would you propose?
> 
> This is a bit of a sideways step, but...
> 
> I'm sure a lot of people would like to be able to register a zone
> and not point it at any nameservers, and not even have it appear
> in the top level zone files.  Many people "sit" on a zone for many
> reasons, and in most cases having to point them at a nameserver
> just to register it is pointless and stupid.
> 
> If a domain could exist in that state, then these domains could
> just have the lame name servers removed from their records, possibly
> existing with no nameservers, until the owner pointed them at the
> right place.
> 




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