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VeriSign and Other Registry Giants Blast ICANN
rhwalker22 writes: "VeriSign, ENIC, and Nominet UK today released a letter to the U.S. Commerce Dept. urging Uncle Sam to 'scale back the powers of the body that manages the Internet's global addressing system,' according to this report on washingtonpost.com. ICANN, of course, has its own take on the Registries' letter..."
It's the same link. Read the whole article.
Unix is user friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are.
No link needed since most of the article is ICANN's viewpoint.
"The record doesn't even begin to support that," Lynn said of the assertion that ICANN has gradually taken on more power than it was authorized to wield. "This is rhetoric by someone who runs the biggest registry -- by a factor of four -- in the world," Lynn said of VeriSign.
I was always under the impression that the top level (.) servers resided at Verisign/Network Solutions. Currently running on RS/6000 systems as I remember the news about the switch from Sun systems and "We put the dot in dot com" suddenly being incorrect.
England's dot-uk is the fourth largest Internet domain with more than 3.5 million registrations.
I'm pretty sure they do for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and some smaller Islands as well. In fact uk probably stands for United Kingdom, altough like most things United it isn't (I'm sure thats someone's Law)
Grumble, grumble, whinge, whinte.
Special Relativity: The person in the other queue thinks yours is moving faster.
Both A, J and G roots are in Virginia. A and J is at NSI, and G is at DoD.
The F root is in Palo Alto
The K root is run by RIPE NCC, and is housed in London
The L root is at ISI in California
I cannot remember or find locations for the others :)
Oh, VeriSign's just mad because ICANN rejected their WLS proposal and
"ICANN leaders have "very, very creatively interpreted their authority to get into areas they were never authorized to get into,"
sounds suspciously like VeriSign's own business practices...
Their both just giant evil entities anyway.
Most people would die sooner than think; in fact, they do.
Not true, and if it was, it would be a really bad idea to have them all in the same place. RFC 2010 [faqs.org] gives the standard requirements for the servers.
.org, .net] SLDs) are made. If it's lost it can be restarted from a backup or mirror. But changes made since the last backup or flush will be lost.
I think you're confusing two issues.
- There is one canonical root database. This is where the decisions about what is registered and what is not (at the root level, the TLDs, and the significant [.com,
- There are a number of root servers. These are all effectively mirrors of the contents of the root database as of the last snapshot.
The issue is who maintains the canonical database, which provides the data for the servers, not the servers themselves.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
The original is the somewhat more pithy "pot calling the kettle blackarse", and dates back to a time when both these utensils were heated by suspending them over fires. The reference is to being dirty/sooty.
OK now I missed this post while running through the thread with my moderator points so I am going to put the record straight at the expense of the two points I used moderating.
:O)
I represent a member of Nominet and recently attended the AGM (Nominet is an organisation limited by garuntee and collectively owned by it's members)
At the AGM Nominet announced that they were looking into ways to allow individuals to opt-out of public display of whois details and were staggering the introduction of full contact details to the whois output and initially only providing business/organisational addresses (The Nominet registration template includes a space to indicate whether or not your are an organisation or an individual)
The money in the bank is required to cover the increasing lawsuits faced by not only Nominet as an organisation but also the directors who have in the past been targetted individually.
The accounts are sitting on my desk and were distributed at the AGM - like most private companies they do not publically distribute accounts and as a non-profit making organisation they do need to be audited and do so annually. The accounts and audit are filed with Companies House annually - whether they are available to the public or not is a matter to bring up with your MP.
As for hidden companies - they're not hidden they are just there to protect property rights and as such are non-operating. This is standard business practice in the UK. My own company has to have a different name because another company has registered the name I wish to use as it dounds like their trading name. There is nothing illegal about this.
Nominet are not transparent but neither is government. Nominet do attempt to run themselves for the common good as I know a few of the members involved in the running and policy making of Nominet and they give a hell of a lot of their personal time, often withough payment, to try and make Nominet even better than it already is.
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