Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 10:42:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Cc: root@caribnet.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name Submission to NIC Message-ID: <199605141742.KAA12633@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605131740.RAA02378@jraynard.demon.co.uk> from "James Raynard" at May 13, 96 05:40:12 pm
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> > Are there any utilities in FreeBSD to submit domain names to the internic? > > If so let me know.. > > It's not really a thing that can be done at user-level - your best bet > is to go through your ISP. The Internic www page has an online form. An ISP will usually set themselves up ad administrators, charge you for forwarding you the form and then forwarding it to internic for you, etc. The main requirement for a domain is that you set up domain name servers for the thing that Internic can contact and verify to make sure it's real. The guidelines want a primary and a secondary, but I've seen them grant them with just a primary. A nameserver is generlly the only thing you need an ISP for, if any. I personally applied for a domain with myself as the authority simply to get a permanent mailing address (mailbox.com was taken) for myself and a few friends and family (yes, mci.com was also taken 8-)). Since delegation authority is seperate from address authority, you don't need a legal address for hosts in the domain, just the name servers, which can be (*will be*) in some else's domain. Note that since Dupont registered all their trademarks as domains (ie: good argument that the name space is seperate from the trademark name space, for all you California bill opponents who want to write Amicus Curie briefs), they have had to impose a fee to prevent "corporate raiding" of the name space. It'll cost you $50/year (for now). Decentralized naming authority was one of the good arguments for IPv8 because of all this fee crap. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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