Registrars with free DynDNS services of my own domains.

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Tue Feb 23 06:42:11 UTC 2010


On Feb 22, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>> All registrars do that.  They can't register domains without being
>> willing to point them somewhere, so they can either delegate to
>> nameservers the customers specify or use their own nameservers.
> 
> That's not actually true. There is no requirement that a domain name
> registration have name servers associated with it, although what you
> describe is by far the most common model.

RFC 1591, section 3.3 & 3.5?

>       There are no requirements on subdomains of top-level domains
>       beyond the requirements on higher-level domains themselves.  That
>       is, the requirements in this memo are applied recursively.  In
>       particular, all subdomains shall be allowed to operate their own
>       domain name servers, providing in them whatever information the
>       subdomain manager sees fit (as long as it is true and correct).

[ ... ]
>       There must be a primary and a secondary nameserver that have IP
>       connectivity to the Internet and can be easily checked for
>       operational status and database accuracy by the IR and the IANA.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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