Not the best solution, but it takes VeriSign out of the loop

Tue Sep 16 18:30:37 UTC 2003

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:07:41AM -0700, Mike Damm wrote:
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> 
> Who's up for creating a network of new gTLD servers? I'm sure it wouldn't be
> too hard to reconstruct 90% of the com/net zones from publicly available
> data (http://www.deleteddomains.com/newlist.shtml?cid=11673-11084 would be a
> good start). Constantly farming for missed zones, and maybe even querying
> the "real" servers for missing data. The updates would be a day or two
> behind the "real" zones, but once you got a good number of eyeballs looking
> to your servers instead of VeriSign's, you could probably convince quite a
> few registrars to start sending you updates too.

You can download the real zones if you want easily enough. Some years ago
all this took was sending a few faxes.

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