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Re: How do I get host records deleted?


From: <william () elan net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:57:17 -0800 (PST)


At this time no registrar can delete host records. What they do is 
transfer your host into another specifially reserved domain, for example 
NSI uses LAME-DELEGATION.ORG, so if you had ns1.somedomain.com, it would
become LAME99999.LAME-DELEGATION.ORG. Other registrars have their own 
domains for such domains (for example opensrs is NS-NOT-IN-SERVICE.COM).
Usually hosts are transfered into these domains before domain is deleted 
(for non-payment) but if you talk to your registrar (which is difficult 
with NSI...), their engineers can do it with active domains too.

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Adam McKenna wrote:


On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:50:47AM -0500, Jonathan Disher wrote:
And it's not entirely true that "only your domain registrar has host
records for your domain".

You're right, but that's not what I said.

I guess the completeley technically correct statement in this case would have
been "only your registrar is able to create, delete, and modify your host
records in whois.internic.net, and hence, your nameservers' glue records in
the GTLD servers".

Another registrar could do whatever it wants with its own database, and
that's exactly what NSOL does.  The only way to fix this is to do your part
to make NSOL 'shape up or ship out'.  Transfer your domains to other 
registrars and encourage your customers to do the same.

--Adam




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