What is your point? IMHO it's far better for NSI to accept the applications without working SOA. Otherwise you lock people into paying ISPs to hold domains for them. While that might give you business, it's not something that NSI should enforce, or should have to enforce.
The point is that the *NAMESERVERS* aren't even resolvable 30% of the time! That is, out of the NS records, I can't resolve about 30% of the *NS* records that are listed in the .COM zone! All I'm doing right now is a query for the NS lines for "." on the nameservers which are uniquely represented in the .COM zone. And, as of right now, about 30% of those NS records don't go anywhere. I haven't even started looked at the SOAs for the delegations yet.... -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | 99 Analog numbers, 77 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "info@mcs.net" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal