Simple question that doesn't let me sleep :)

[Adam Lang]

Probably just a situation where they don't want to pay to register a name at
all. :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: Simple question that doesn't let me sleep :)


<snip>
> It's not technically possible, unless you can convince everyone who would
ever want to come to
> your site to replace the servers in their "hints" file with your servers,
and then use your
> servers for every query that they would normally send to the root servers.
If your
> "invented" domain name were under an existing TLD (e.g. com, net, org, a
country-code TLD,
> etc.), then you would have to handle all of the queries from those servers
for those domains as
> well.
>
> The reason for this is that DNS has a hierarchical namespace. Unless you
are somehow attached
> to the "tree", no-one will ever know to ask your nameservers about a
particular "branch" of
> that tree. These attachments are called "delegations" and flow downwards
from the root servers.
>
> I have to ask though: why do you think you need to pay your ISP to
register domain names? If
> you have your own nameservers, you can register the domains yourself
directly from a domain
> registrar, which is probably a lot cheaper. (Is it some sort of
contractual thing between you
> and your ISP? In that case, you're probably stuck).
>
>
> - Kevin
>
>