--On August 28, 2006 9:52:30 PM +0000 John Levine <nanog@johnlevine.com> wrote:

You're confusing registrars and registries. Every TLD has a single monopoly registry to which all registrars funnel the registrations. Switching registrars wouldn't help.

AH! That's what I was missing now it makes sense. I wasn't thinking about it carefully enough. So yeah, decidedly bad juju. :/

I have a longer blog entry on this at http://weblog.johnlevine.com.

R's, John

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