Domain shut downs by Registrar?

Fri Dec 3 18:39:15 UTC 2010

> I think Verisign DBMS acts as a registrar for ccTLDs.

No, they're a registry.  Not the same thing.

The registry holds the definitive database and manages the DNS zone. 
Registrars face the public and use some sort of API to pass the changes to 
the registry.

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