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

Wed Jun 18 00:50:21 UTC 2003

On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 12:18 Canada/Eastern, John Brown wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:03:07AM -0700, william at elan.net wrote:
>>
>> 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".
>
> Not correct, registrar and registry agreements require at least two
> name servers.

Any registry that supports RRP (Verisign Registry, PIR) or even 
slightly old drafts of EPP must allow domains to be registered with no 
host objects, since there is no other way to allow domains with 
subordinate nameservers to be created in the registry (the required 
procedure is create-domain-with-no-nameservers, 
create-subordinate-hosts, add-nameservers-to-domain). Domains with no 
nameservers can't appear in the corresponding registry zone, since no 
delegation is possible.

Note this is registry functionality made available to registrars, and 
does not necessarily imply functionality available to registrants.

Joe