more on From the amazing headline department -- Libya disappears from the Internet

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

From: Joel Snyder <Joel.Snyder () Opus1 COM>

> This is backed up by a quick check over the Net. Libya's top-level
> domain doesn't appear to point anywhere at all. It should have primary
> and secondary name servers where all the details of .ly domains are
> contained. But nothing. In short, .ly has ceased to exist.

This isn't true.  The root servers (controlled by, presumably, Verisign & 
IANA) point to ns1.magic-moments.com and auth02.ns.uu.net for the LY 
top-level-domain.

Magic-Moments.COM doesn't have anything for LY in it, though, and the 
UU.NET server is presumably just a secondary to Magic-Moments (although 
someone in control at UUnet/MCI can probably comment on that), which also 
doesn't have anything in it.

So it's not IANA who took 'em off the net; it's Magic Moments.  Of course, 
it's possible that someone at IANA put in Magic Moments INSTEAD of whatever 
should be there (either on purpose or by mistake).

jms 

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