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.
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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.
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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.