For all top-level domains you can register a domain and not have any name servers specified for it. In whois it'll say exactly that - "no nameservers". I'd be very much against removing these domains from root zones entirely, but I maybe biased since I use these zone files for my own software. On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote:
In a message written on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 07:05:17PM -0700, william@elan.net wrote:
If what they are doing is not ok, what would you propose?
This is a bit of a sideways step, but...
I'm sure a lot of people would like to be able to register a zone and not point it at any nameservers, and not even have it appear in the top level zone files. Many people "sit" on a zone for many reasons, and in most cases having to point them at a nameserver just to register it is pointless and stupid.
If a domain could exist in that state, then these domains could just have the lame name servers removed from their records, possibly existing with no nameservers, until the owner pointed them at the right place.