On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:57:46 CST, James Hess said:
Just because someone registered EXAMPLE.COM with one particular internet registry, doesn't mean they own the lookup result for every DNS server in the world. All they have paid for is the creation and maintenance of entries in one particular shared database, and they only have control for the (large) subset of DNS servers that utilize that particular database.
People can start new DNS roots, old DNS roots can be superceded, there can even be multiple conflicting private roots.
Those who didn't read RFC2826 are condemned to repeat it. Of course, it's *your* help desk that gets to answer the phone and explain to your users why www.giraffes-r-us.com went to a nice page of cute pictures of giraffes when they were at Starbucks, but when they got home to show their kids, it was giraffe pr0n.