Re: mail does bounce (was: Customers down?)

On Sat, 01 January 2000, "Steven J. Sobol" wrote:

What I was referring to was a situation where the domain does exist in the root nameservers but the authoritative nameservers are unavailable.

So .COM exists in the root servers? How do you decide to treat second level domains (i.e. donelan.com) versus third level domains (i.e. www.donelan.com) versus third level domains under country code domains.