Re: [registrars] Nameservers for .org

[Mike Lampson <lampson@iaregistry.com>]

Bob,

PIR has posted a nameserver advisory regarding nameserver used for .ORG
domains.  This is available in the blue box on the right side of the screen
when you log-in at the orgtransition.info web site.

What is not said in the advisory is that PIR's RRP implementation is a
gateway to the 07/05/05/05 drafts of the EPP specification.  Under this
draft, external host objects (non-ORG nameservers) are unique only on a
per-Registrar basis.

As an example, we are hosting some domains at DNS1.IAREGISTRY.COM and can
modify other domains to use this nameserver.  You cannot modify one of your
.ORG domains to use DNS1.IAREGISTRY.COM unless you (as a Registrar) have at
least 1 other domain already using this nameserver.  If you do an "Add" on
this nameserver using the appropriate RRP command or via the PIR Admin
interface, then you can modify domains to use this nameserver.

When the .ORG domains were transferred to PIR, nameservers were defined as
needed to put them into PIR's system.  However other nameservers which were
not already hosting .ORG domains with your as the Registrar are not defined
for your use in the .ORG Registry.

Cheers,

Mike Lampson
The Registry at Info Avenue, LLC
lampson@iaregistry.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert F Connelly" <rconnell@psi-japan.com>
To: "Registrar Constituency" <registrars@dnso.org>
Cc: "Bruce Beckwith" <Bbeckwith@pir.org>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 12:36 PM
Subject: [registrars] Nameservers for .org


Dear Colleagues:

[Sent a second time, original not received by me in over an hour.]

I'm somewhat confused about nameservers for .org domains.

In the past, we created some nameservers from domains for which we were the
registrar of record.  This process is one which we know and
understand.  Our registrants could also specify nameservers already
recognized by Verisign.

It seems to me that our .org registrations which were transferred over to
PIR carried their nameservers with them.

If that is true, shouldn't we be able to create new .org domains in PIR
which use nameservers already in PIR by reason of their transfer to PIR?

To check on whether Verisign recognizes a nameserver, I go to this web
interface:

         http://www.verisign-grs.com/whois/

I then type in the nameserver name and select the radio button for
nameservers:

[Original had a screenprint here, perhaps it was held up for moderation.]

Question:  Will the Verisign system still recognize .org
nameservers?  Certainly some of them must be in use for .com and/or .net
domains.

To reiterate my first question:  Can we use existing .org nameservers for
our new registrations?

New question:  Does PIR have a registry whois for nameservers such as the
above?

Regards, BobC


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