North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 02:14:12PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote: > > I count 141 ICANN "fully: accrediated domain name registrars, with an > unknown number of secondary registrars due to systems like OpenSRS. > > These organizations collectively handle second-level name resolution for > the overwhelming majority of the millions of .com, .net, and .org domains > in use on the Internet. And while I haven't done a survey, I'd surmise > that they overwhelmingly use BIND. > > Will these 141 organizations many of whose business relies on BIND be > eligible for your fee-based list? Do they consitute providers of "critical > infrastructure" in your eyes? > They're registrars. The don't directly provide DNS in any more critical a nature than any commercial DNS provider. And, since they're commercial organizations using BIND in a commercial aspect, I think they can cough up the money. -- i am jamie at arpa dot com .. and this is my .sig. core1.dns.microsoft.com# sho access-list 101 Extended IP access list 101 deny udp any any eq domain (874572345872345 matches)
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