example.com/net/org DNS records

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Mon Jan 5 01:51:40 UTC 2004


>> Does anyone know why IANA has assigned NS and A records to the
>> example.{com,org,net,...} domains?  They even put up a website
>> at the IP explaining RFC 2606.
> because they are owned by the IANA.  

pedantic point:

no, they are not 'owned' by anybody.  they are *reserved*, and
should not be used by anybody.

randy




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