NSI closes top level Domain Servers

Cris writes "Looks like NSI is closing access to all it's top level domain servers, except for people that "need access." This is allegedly a way to eliminate spamming, but they've denied access to many companies which depend on these servers for their businesses. "

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Not exactly what they're doing

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From what I gathered from the article, they aren't closing access to the top level servers, in fact they aren't changing anything on the top level servers. They are taking away access to the zone files for the top level domains. You can still use whois and all that, personally it's an unfortunate consequence of people abusing those files. I can't tell you how much mail (e-mail and snail mail) I suddenly recieved after registering a domain for myself. I've stopped the address the domain is registered under because of all the spam it gets. However, I do think that they are also using it to deny access to competitors who should be given access. It doesn't seem to be as horrid as the original post makes it seem, but I'm sure that their motives aren't exactly pure. Goes to show how badly we need new domain policy and infrastructure in place.