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Article #235Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:55
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:55
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In article <1992Jul30.053413.27574@nntp.uoregon.edu> johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin) writes:
>In article <1992Jul29.215824.16932@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>, kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ)) writes:
>>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.
> There is no force of law, as you
>put it, but it is a very strongly rooted convention, not to mention just
>plain old good manners.
It's more than just a convention and good manners, it's simply "the way
things work." The NIC is the master server for the .COM zone (as well as
all the other non-country domains). It's simply not possible to
legitimately create a 2nd level domain in .COM without going though them.
Their master file is the definition of the .COM domain; if it's not in
there, it doesn't really exist.
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved. Date: 30 Jul 1992 20:55:57 GMT Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <159l0tINN8q8@early-bird.think.com> References: <3157@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Jul29.215824.16932@anomaly.sbs.risc.net> <1992Jul30.053413.27574@nntp.uoregon.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com Keywords: n