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Reading this is a truly weird experience - the idea of a single source of truth for domain names seems foreign now, though in truth it's probably not as far rem
by alex-moon 1y ago
Reading this is a truly weird experience - the idea of a single source of truth for domain names seems foreign now, though in truth it's probably not as far removed from the current practice as anyone would like to think.
- vidarh 1y agoRegistries main purpose of existence is to be a single source of truth for the zone(s) they are responsible for... That hasn't changed, though Network Solutions is now just a registrar, not a registry after Verisign sold it off. Verisign, however, held on to and still operates the registry for most of the TLDs NSI did, and a few new ones, as well as 2 out of 13 root servers (up from 1 out of 9)
- bandrami 1y agoWhen I was an undergrad you still had to write a letter to Jon Postel explaining why you thought you deserved a given domain name and what you planned to do with it.