Broken domain statistics...

Thu Feb 12 14:47:36 UTC 1998

> 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 at trinet.com