[registrars] Verisign change to operation of the .com DNS lookup service

[Elana Broitman]

I have reached out to a few constituencies, but will try to get a cross-ExCom call going on this.

Thanks for the suggestions

Elana Broitman
Register.com
575 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Phone (212) 798-9215
Fax   (212) 629-9309
ebroitman at register.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: ross at tucows.com 
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:15 PM
To: Jean-Michel Becar
Cc: Registrar Constituency
Subject: Re: [registrars] Verisign change to operation of the .com DNS
lookup service


On 9/16/2003 11:02 PM Jean-Michel Becar noted that:

> Anyone talked to the ASO's folks?
> This new way of operating the .com .net zones will also have a big 
> impact on the network operators and ISP as for example when you want to 
> troubleshoot a network problem people will always get answer for any 
> domain via a nslookup :-(
> 

Don't worry, according to Neulevel 
<http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg00082.html and 
http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2003/9/16/2958.html>, application 
developers can just update their software to take the new behavior into 
account.

And while they're doing that, I was hoping that ARIN and the other ASO's 
might figure out a way to point me in the right direction when I type in 
a non-existent IP address...this could be very helpful.

.and maybe IANA could do figure out some wildcarding of their own - 
damn pesky port numbers - can never keep those straight either.

-- 

Regards,


                       -rwr


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