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>>>>> On 29 Jul 92 21:58:24 GMT, kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ)) said:

>> 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.

Legal authority, in the sense of going to gaol, no.  But the only
person who can add the name "pleasure.com" to the .com domain of the
DNS is the "owner" of the .com domain (or, perhaps more pedantically,
anyone who has write permission on the file used to prime the cache of
the primary .com server....).  This is the NIC.  So you could
advertise yourself (in mail or news headers or business cards or
whatever) as anything you like, but unless the person running the .com
adds this entry, name lookups from the rest of the internet will fail
and no-one else will be able to use that name to reach you.  This is
inherent in the top-down nature of the DNS tree.

So the NIC (or its delegated sub-authorities) is the ONLY official
registry that counts, unless you can convince the whole world to
ignore them and use some other parallel DNS hierarchy (fat chance).

Greg.
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