Root Servers Request

Tue Feb 10 00:36:12 UTC 2004

How does ISC pick these sites/subsidizers?

Thanks,

DJ

Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Donovan Hill wrote:
> 
> : This is a formal request to ICANN that they hand over the root server to a
> : not-for-profit organization. I nominate ISC for this task.
> 
> And here, I had thought that most of *.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. were ISC-sponsored,
> mostly not-for-profit/academic/subsidized servers as it was.  To be sure,
> VeriSign does not control the majority of such servers.  8-)
> 
> You're probably confused that ROOT-SERVERS.NET. != GTLD-SERVERS.NET.  The
> latter hosts COM. and NET. and is run exclusively by VeriSign.
> 