Colm For gTLDs the nameservers have to be registered via a registrar Some of the ccTLDs also demand payment and other oddness for adding them I suspect a lot of this is legacy .. no idea though
Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Colocation & Domains http://www.blacknight.host/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ http://www.technology.ie http://www.blacknight.press for all our news & media Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Twitter: http://twitter.com/mneylon ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845 -----Original Message----- From: dns-operations [mailto:dns-operations-boun...@dns-oarc.net] On Behalf Of Colm MacCárthaigh Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:53 PM To: dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net Subject: [dns-operations] Dumb question: why is it that some registries limit the nameservers that can be delegated to? Many registries, if not most, don't let you delegate a zone to arbitrary name-servers. Instead those nameservers need to be "registered" in some way. Typically anyone can register a name server, and it once it's done, many zones can be delegated to that name server. A small number of CC-TLDs also require contact details for the name servers, but I only know of two that do that. Registering doesn't require setting up glue, and it doesn't look it's being done to detect cyclic dependencies between zones, which is also the only limitation in the DNS that I can think of that require some kind of workaround. So why is it that name servers need to be registered? What's the benefit of doing it? and if anyone can register a name server, what's the point? -- Colm _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs _______________________________________________ dns-operations mailing list dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-operations dns-jobs mailing list https://lists.dns-oarc.net/mailman/listinfo/dns-jobs
