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Incidentally it's a similar setup for .edu, which is run through the edu-servers.net domain (registered via dotster to a real person), which is subject to the s
by iuguy 16y ago
Incidentally it's a similar setup for .edu, which is run through the edu-servers.net domain (registered via dotster to a real person), which is subject to the standard TLD glue that should make changes a little harder than regular domain hijacking.
Incidentally mod.uk has a nameserver pointing to ns1.cs.ucl.ac.uk. I wonder if there are many other domains that use academic resources.
- olkiujytryujik 16y agoUCL's CS dept were in at the start of the internet - they used to manage the old x500 network and the .gb domain and invented a bunch of the domain management stuff. I would probably trust them to get it right more than whatever nominet are calling themselves today
- philjr 16y agothe old .ie TLD used to be run by UCD (a college here in Dublin) and indeed the ie nameservers, even now, list a variety of nameservers of 3rd parties, including Esat (a company acquired by BT) and netsource (which was acquired by Magnet in 2006) as well as a dec.com domain. $ dig +short ie ns ns3.ns.esat.net. gns1.domainregistry.ie. uucp-gw-1.pa.dec.com. ns-ie.nic.fr. uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com. banba.domainregistry.ie. gns2.domainregistry.ie. b.iedr.ie. ice.netsource.ie. Up until about 2004, domains here in Ireland were being sold for extortionate amounts of money compared to other TLD's (100 euros a pop from the registry). There was some scandal regarding the body running the registry and the head of the body Michael Fagan was essentially forced to resign circa 2002