getting Authoritative Name Servers registered in TLD

[Bruce Dawson]

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Bill McGonigle wrote:

| On Dec 21, 2005, at 13:38, Thomas Charron wrote:
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|> As an examples ns1.example.com at 66.132.43.53services
|> example.com. example.com would need a glue record for that host in
|> the .com
|> tld. Is ns1.example.com is also doing DNS resolution for foo.org,
|> technically, the .org TLD does NOT require a glue record, however,
|> IT IS
|> RECOMENDED ONE EXIST. Different tld's deal with this differently, but
|> adding the glue records is always important.
|
|
| Here's the part I'm having trouble wrapping my head around - when I
| register a domain they ask me to put in the names and IP's of the
| DNS servers for that domain which are reflected in the WHOIS
| records. At one point before I knew about glue records I did this
| without asking for glue records to be created, and, sure enough,
| they were in WHOIS but there was no glue so the domain didn't work.
|
| So, why isn't that enough if the zone files are generated from that
| database? I understand why you need glue records but don't
| understand why glue records aren't automatically created when the
| TLD zone file is generated.
|
Glue records (NS and A RR's) are only necessary if you actually want
to use the domain. There are a lot of domains out there that people
don't want used, but do want to control. For example: acmesucks.com,
deep6bush.com, ... - those are just names that came to me, I don't
know if they actually exist or not). So, the ACME corp may not want
someone creating a domain acmesucks.com, or even various permutations
of ACME (e.g. AMCE, ...) in order to control what people think of
their company.

Squatters love domains without glue records.

- --Bruce
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