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- From: kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ))
- Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
- Organization: The Rhode Island Internet Systems Cooperative Network
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:58:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.215824.16932@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>
- References: <1992Jul27.135126.1626@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu> <1992Jul28.203324.15206@uwm.edu> <xKV-d9#@engin.umich.edu> <3157@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
-
- > The DDn Network Information Center is the ONLY official organisation
- >that can grant or delegate responsibility for domain names.
-
- Do you have the law which deligates them this authority?
-
- No? I thought so.
-
- The NIC is a clearinghouse, which is generally accepted amoung sites to be
- "the center" for registering a domain. There is no force-of-law behind this,
- however.
-
- > The site "pleasure.com" was required to obtain a valid domain name
- >(from the DDN NIC since *.com is not delegated) and did not do so.
-
- Obtaining the "internet-number" template from the NIC, which is used to
- request a network address assignment, contains no question for you to
- indicate the domain name of an IP address you are registering. Therefore,
- one can surmise that it is entirely legitimate to obtain an IP address
- without a domain name.
-
- MD
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