[dns-operations] Missing .us and GTLD records??

[Luis Uribarri]

This is my first time posting, so please be gentle, this info has to do 
with GTLD delegations, specific to ".us"

So after registering some '.us' domains, I was using 'dig +trace' to 
verify the delegations got published on the GTLD servers.

Here is what I noticed, (you can repeat this, just pick any .us domain and 
run repeated 'dig +trace' for it)

It looks like there are missing .us GTLD records??

Something tells me this is not normal.
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;; Received 472 bytes from 192.228.79.201#53(b.root-servers.net) in 113 ms

dig: Couldn't find server 'j.gtld.biz': Name or service not known
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;; Received 472 bytes from 192.33.4.12#53(c.root-servers.net) in 21 ms

dig: Couldn't find server 'j.cctld.us': Name or service not known
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Sure enough,
You can confirm with plain old BIND, the "A" records do not exist, (just 
the glue, but not the A), should not all 'Registered Name Servers' have 
the 'A' records published, or am I totally wrong here.


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$ dig @localhost. j.gtld.biz

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @localhost. j.gtld.biz
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35494
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;j.gtld.biz.                    IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gtld.biz.               6869    IN      SOA     a.gtld.biz. 
hostmaster.neustar.biz. 1109166320 10800 3600 1209600 43200

;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(localhost.)
;; WHEN: Tue May 18 17:05:42 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 85

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$ dig @localhost. j.cctld.us

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @localhost. j.cctld.us
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9408
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;j.cctld.us.                    IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
us.                     559     IN      SOA     a.gtld.biz. 
hostmaster.neustar.biz. 2004312556 900 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(localhost.)
;; WHEN: Tue May 18 17:05:53 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 93
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Thanks for your input.


Luis Uribarri