[dns-operations] Resolver operation an expired domain

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 01:55:28PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > > And verisign should know better.  While verisign gets this wrong
> > > how can we expect everyone else to do the right thing?

> Sorry, I mispoke. 
> 
> 	/Verisign/Network Solutions/

Except that while I can see good reason for considerable chagrin were
Verisign to get such a thing wrong (given their central place in the
DNS operation environment), I don't know what the argument would be
for, "When $random_registrar_and_dns_operator gets this wrong, how can
we expect. . .?"

Network Solutions is not the central-to-the-Internet company it once
was: it's just another registrar and (I guess) DNS operator.  It
competes, like any other company.

One might as well ask how, if American Motors Corp (or, to pick a more
recent example, General Motors) can't get car design right, how likely
is it that anyone will?  As it turns out, the answer is, "Pretty
likely."  I don't think market forces are the answer to everything,
but in a commodity market like domain name registration, those forces
are bound to be reasonably effective. (But only, of course, if we're
careful in naming who has messed up.)

A

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