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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: Pleasure.com mystery solved.
- Date: 30 Jul 1992 20:55:57 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- Message-ID: <159l0tINN8q8@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <3157@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Jul29.215824.16932@anomaly.sbs.risc.net> <1992Jul30.053413.27574@nntp.uoregon.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul30.053413.27574@nntp.uoregon.edu> johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul29.215824.16932@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>, kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan (KD1HZ)) writes:
- >>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.
- > There is no force of law, as you
- >put it, but it is a very strongly rooted convention, not to mention just
- >plain old good manners.
-
- It's more than just a convention and good manners, it's simply "the way
- things work." The NIC is the master server for the .COM zone (as well as
- all the other non-country domains). It's simply not possible to
- legitimately create a 2nd level domain in .COM without going though them.
- Their master file is the definition of the .COM domain; if it's not in
- there, it doesn't really exist.
- --
- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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