Hi Matt, That’s not how it would be done. There is an EPP status serverHold (or, if issued by the registrar, clientHold), which removes a domain from DNS. This is used after arbitration or court decisions and for cases of abuse. I doubt however that Verisign would suspend Parler’s domain.
Matthias Merkel Staclar, Inc. From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+matthias.merkel=staclar....@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Matt Erculiani Sent: Thursday, 14 January 2021 17:46 To: aheb...@pubnix.net Cc: nanog@nanog.org list <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Parler Is there a remote possibility here that Verisign might say "yeah, we're gonna glue this domain down to 0.0.0.0 and not allow registration"? Is there any precedent for this? Would seem like a game of whack-a-mole that anyone would want to avoid. Really that would seem like the only way to ratchet up the "internet death penalty" even further at this point, barring any major ISPs coming out and saying they'll block it from transiting their networks. Again, more whack-a-mole, and arguably a more serious precedent to set as Verisign isn't the only TLD registrar. -Matt On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 7:24 AM Alain Hebert <aheb...@pubnix.net<mailto:aheb...@pubnix.net>> wrote: Hi, This is just their DNS, parler.com<http://parler.com> itself returns to 0.0.0.0 now. ----- Alain Hebert aheb...@pubnix.net<mailto:aheb...@pubnix.net> PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443 On 1/14/21 12:02 AM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:41:55 -0500, Matt Corallo said: In case anyone thought Amazon was being particularly *careful* around their enforcement of Parler's ban...this is from today on parler's new host: $ dig parler.com<http://parler.com> ns ... parler.com<http://parler.com>. 300 IN NS ns4.epik.com<http://ns4.epik.com>. parler.com<http://parler.com>. 300 IN NS ns3.epik.com<http://ns3.epik.com>. ... ns3.epik.com<http://ns3.epik.com>. 108450 IN A 52.55.168.70 It's quite possible that Amazon is playing this *entirely* by the book, and the Parler crew haven't violated the terms of the nameserver hosting agreement so Amazon hasn't cut that off. -- Matt Erculiani ERCUL-ARIN
