Top Level Domain Finder Tools

Sun Mar 18 01:37:25 UTC 2001

At 11:29 PM 3/17/01 +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

>the collisions dont seem to be being avoided
>
>Checking (AlterNIC) nameserver ny.alternic.org for .SHOP
>Checking (NEWNET) nameserver ns0.newdotnet.net for .SHOP
>Checking (NS) nameserver ns.autono.net for .SHOP
>
>See - you open it up and it all falls apart
>
>These "finder tools" are bobbins, they just query against a botched
>together list of servers.

The tools are designed to find the existing collisions and prevent future 
collisions. So there's nothing wrong with the tools. They're working! The 
result, as you correctly point out, is that the "botched together list of 
servers" are now visible to everyone and will need to be fixed somehow. 
That is the entire point of making the tools available.

>.. also ORSC sounds techie friendly - it has the word open in so it must
>be good - but c'mon theres no difference between it and new.net or
>whoever?

I wouldn't put any money down on that bet. ORSC is a non-profit Delaware 
corp., and it's only product is a published root zone which it gives away 
for free. New.net is a for-profit/VC-funded registry/registrar operation. 
Not quite the same thing at all.

>having said that maybe it would be better than icann.. only
>problem is who has to give them the authority and make everyone abide by
>it?

You do, along with everyone else that has control over where their DNS 
points (per RFC2826).

>Steve
>
>On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Patrick Corliss wrote:
>
> >
> > Simon Higgs <simon at higgs.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday, March 18, 2001 8:12 AM (AEST)
> >
> > > TLD Finder Tools (collision avoidance tools) are available for people to
> > > see which TLDs are already "in play":
> > >
> > >
> > > ORSC have a Top Level Domain Finder which queries the ORSC root zone:
> > > http://tldfind.open-rsc.org/
> > >
> > > Planet Communications & Computing Facility (PCCF - who run the .GOD
> > > registry) have a TLD Finder which queries multiple roots:
> > > http://www.pccf.net/cgi-bin/root-servers/whereis-tld?+
> > >
> >
> > AlterNIC's newest tool
> > http://www.alternic.org/tldfinder.html
> >

Best Regards,

Simon Higgs

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