[dns-operations] Dumb question: why is it that some registries limit the nameservers that can be delegated to?

[Michele Neylon - Blacknight]

Colm

For gTLDs the nameservers have to be registered via a registrar
Some of the ccTLDs also demand payment and other oddness for adding them
I suspect a lot of this is legacy .. no idea though

Regards

Michele


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-----Original Message-----
From: dns-operations [mailto:dns-operations-bounces at dns-oarc.net] On Behalf Of Colm MacCárthaigh
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:53 PM
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Subject: [dns-operations] Dumb question: why is it that some registries limit the nameservers that can be delegated to?

Many registries, if not most, don't let you delegate a zone to arbitrary name-servers. Instead those nameservers need to be "registered" in some way.

Typically anyone can register a name server, and it once it's done, many zones can be delegated to that name server. A small number of CC-TLDs also require contact details for the name servers, but I only know of two that do that.

Registering doesn't require setting up glue, and it doesn't look it's being done to detect cyclic dependencies between zones, which is also the only limitation in the DNS that I can think of that require some kind of workaround.

So why is it that name servers need to be registered? What's the benefit of doing it? and if anyone can register a name server, what's the point?

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