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