* bicknell@ufp.org (Leo Bicknell) [Tue 17 Jun 2003, 16:34 CEST]:
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.
FWIW, at least the .ch TLD registrar allows reservation of domains without putting them in the zone file. The only disadvantage I see with this is that my preferred way of checking whether a domain is available for registration (`dig ns dom.ain.') no longer works. The .nl registrar used to differentiate between "reserved" domains (words that were considered too generic when those weren't allowed to be registered as domains) by returning NOERROR and no data instead of NXDOMAIN. -- Niels. -- The generation of random numbers is Too important to leave to chance