Re: Alternic.net (was domain zapping)

At 05:54 AM 6/26/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>William Knowles writes:
>> With all the talk about InterNIC zapping domains, there should be
>> some talk about other registries, Alternic.net : http://www.alternic.net
>> is offering an alpha test for registering new TLD's and the prices
>> are considerably less expensive than the Internic.
>
<snip crap>
>
>They can offer to sell you anything they like, of course, and you can
>pay them, but you don't get anything at all for the money. Domains
>registered with them don't appear in the real DNS.
>
>.pm

Perry,

What constitutes "real DNS"?

DNS server administrators need only add one line to their named.boot file to
resolve .nic hosts.

secondary       nic     204.94.42.1             db.nic


It's that easy! The concept of centralized name resolutions is flawed and
only exists out of habit. 

J.

John F. Fricker writes:

 > DNS server administrators need only add one line to their named.boot file to
 > resolve .nic hosts.
 > 
 > secondary       nic     204.94.42.1             db.nic

Question to ponder: Why don't people encrypt mail sent to cypherpunks?

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com>    http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson
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John F. Fricker writes:
> What constitutes "real DNS"?

The DNS that everyone on earth but the few hundred loonies use.

The fact that if you put a URL on the side of a bus using one of
"alternic"'s alleged domain names in it, no one on earth will be able
to read the page. I think that more or less says everything.

> It's that easy! The concept of centralized name resolutions is flawed and
> only exists out of habit. 

Yes, lets have chaos so no one can send anyone else mail because no
two machines share the same idea of the global namespace. It will
reduce the number of messages like yours I have to read.

Perry