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atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:

>  The DDn Network Information Center is the ONLY official organisation
>that can grant or delegate responsibility for domain names.

Do you have the law which deligates them this authority?

No? I thought so.

The NIC is a clearinghouse, which is generally accepted amoung sites to be
"the center" for registering a domain. There is no force-of-law behind this,
however.
 
>  The site "pleasure.com" was required to obtain a valid domain name
>(from the DDN NIC since *.com is not delegated) and did not do so.

Obtaining the "internet-number" template from the NIC, which is used to
request a network address assignment, contains no question for you to
indicate the domain name of an IP address you are registering. Therefore,
one can surmise that it is entirely legitimate to obtain an IP address
without a domain name.

MD
-- 
--  Dr. Michael P. Deignan (deg.pend.)      /   "Its okay dear,
--  Domain: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net     /     you can show me...
--    UUCP: ..!uunet!anomaly!kd1hz        /      I'm a Doctor..."