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RE: When is Verisign's registry contract up for renewal

  • From: Jeroen Massar
  • Date: Sun Sep 21 16:06:24 2003 
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Paul Vixie wrote:

> > > > website: www.alt-servers.org.
> > >
> > > what a BAD idea.  worse than anything else on the table or in
> > > existence today.
> > 
> > Splitting the root you mean? I'm not sure there was enough info on that
> > site to come to any other conclusion, but I wanted to make sure.
> 
> this is just dns piracy, dressed up in a morality play.  it 
> won't hold.

Fun parts: b + c don't exist.
And the com part is from .... verisign..

$ dig @a.alt-servers.org com. ns

;; ANSWER SECTION:
com.                    157350  IN      NS      L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    157350  IN      NS      M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    157350  IN      NS      A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    157350  IN      NS      B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    157350  IN      NS      C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
<SNIP>

Maybe with the bind patch though, but this nothing more than
your home grown DNS server in any case. No "advantage" there...

The *ROOT* is good, .com/.net isn't.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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