I'd always thought that this was kinda because of the way EPP is written -- not that it is actually required, but when reading the docs you see the nameservers object and kinda assume...<div><br></div><div>I think at this point much of it is hysterical raisons.</div><div><br></div><div>W<span></span><br><br>On Thursday, September 11, 2014, Stephane Bortzmeyer <<a href="mailto:bortzmeyer@nic.fr">bortzmeyer@nic.fr</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 07:52:31AM -0700,<br>
Colm MacCárthaigh <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'colm@stdlib.net')">colm@stdlib.net</a>> wrote<br>
a message of 26 lines which said:<br>
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> So why is it that name servers need to be registered? What's the<br>
> benefit of doing it?<br>
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As an employee of a registry which does not require name server<br>
registration, I wonder, too :-)<br>
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