Re[5]: [ga-roots] Re[4]: [ga-icann] interesting California law to consider

["William X. Walsh" <william@userfriendly.com>]

To follow up on this.

Three sets of nameservers compromise what appears on just looking to
be the primary dns servers for 60% or more of the TLDs listed in the
ORSC roots. (probably more, I stopped looking once it became obvious)

And those are run by....
PacificRoot
VRX.net/Richard Sexton
Higgs.net/Simon Higgs

Between them they are responsible for the vast majority of alt.root
TLDs.

Further, the primary servers used by all 3 of those sets are also
serving the root zone, providing no separation at all between root and
TLD service.  All three are also serving second level delegated zones.

2 of those sets are also permitting recursive lookups on those same
servers.

I could go on....


Sunday, June 17, 2001, 11:03:32 AM, William X. Walsh wrote:

> Hello Marc,

> Sunday, June 17, 2001, 10:44:10 AM, Marc Schneiders wrote:

>> On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, at 10:10 [=GMT-0700], William X. Walsh wrote:

>>> > Some weeks ago, I had a look at most of their websites, and found, that the 
>>> > majority of them have some more or less stringent requirements concerning 
>>> > which TLD they would include in their root.
>>> > You know obviously more than their websites say.
>>> 
>>> References please?
>>> 
>>> There are no minimum standards or technical requirements at any of the
>>> alt.roots that I am aware of.  If you know otherwise, please don't
>>> just say it, point to the references.
>>> 
>>> That means that unless someone else, who also didn't meet any minimum
>>> standards, emailed them that they wanted that string first, you can
>>> have it, even if you don't know the difference between an MX record
>>> and a CNAME record, much less how to setup a controlled managed dns
>>> system for the domain.

>> This is utter %$#@^& and you know it. You will not get your TLD
>> included in the ORSC root if there aren't at least two nameservers
>> correctly answering for it.

> No, my comments are spot on.  The vast majority of those TLDs use the
> SAME nameservers.  The actual claimant asks Sexton or one of the
> other few who DO actually know how to manage DNS to add an SOA record
> in their dns servers for them.

> The TINC rules are mostly cosmetic.  They are in no way real minimum
> technical standards.

> I can point to a large number of TLDs in the ORSC zone that were
> "Created" by someone posting to the list asking if someone can add
> their TLD to their dns for them.

> You know it, and I know it, so can the BS Marc.




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William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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