Re: more on lame-delegation.org, seems to waste IP space and DNS

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* bicknell () ufp org (Leo Bicknell) [Tue 17 Jun 2003, 16:34 CEST]:
> I'm sure a lot of people would like to be able to register a zone
> and not point it at any nameservers, and not even have it appear
> in the top level zone files.  Many people "sit" on a zone for many
> reasons, and in most cases having to point them at a nameserver
> just to register it is pointless and stupid.

FWIW, at least the .ch TLD registrar allows reservation of domains
without putting them in the zone file.

The only disadvantage I see with this is that my preferred way of
checking whether a domain is available for registration (`dig ns
dom.ain.') no longer works.

The .nl registrar used to differentiate between "reserved" domains
(words that were considered too generic when those weren't allowed
to be registered as domains) by returning NOERROR and no data instead
of NXDOMAIN.


        -- Niels.

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