At 11:29 PM 3/17/01 +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
the collisions dont seem to be being avoided
Checking (AlterNIC) nameserver ny.alternic.org for .SHOP Checking (NEWNET) nameserver ns0.newdotnet.net for .SHOP Checking (NS) nameserver ns.autono.net for .SHOP
See - you open it up and it all falls apart
These "finder tools" are bobbins, they just query against a botched together list of servers.
The tools are designed to find the existing collisions and prevent future collisions. So there's nothing wrong with the tools. They're working! The result, as you correctly point out, is that the "botched together list of servers" are now visible to everyone and will need to be fixed somehow. That is the entire point of making the tools available.
.. also ORSC sounds techie friendly - it has the word open in so it must be good - but c'mon theres no difference between it and new.net or whoever?
I wouldn't put any money down on that bet. ORSC is a non-profit Delaware corp., and it's only product is a published root zone which it gives away for free. New.net is a for-profit/VC-funded registry/registrar operation. Not quite the same thing at all.
having said that maybe it would be better than icann.. only problem is who has to give them the authority and make everyone abide by it?
You do, along with everyone else that has control over where their DNS points (per RFC2826).
Steve
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Patrick Corliss wrote:
Simon Higgs <simon@higgs.com> wrote: On Sunday, March 18, 2001 8:12 AM (AEST)
TLD Finder Tools (collision avoidance tools) are available for people to see which TLDs are already "in play":
ORSC have a Top Level Domain Finder which queries the ORSC root zone: http://tldfind.open-rsc.org/
Planet Communications & Computing Facility (PCCF - who run the .GOD registry) have a TLD Finder which queries multiple roots: http://www.pccf.net/cgi-bin/root-servers/whereis-tld?+
AlterNIC's newest tool http://www.alternic.org/tldfinder.html
Best Regards, Simon Higgs -- It's a feature not a bug...