Re: [apps-discuss] "finding registered domains"

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 01:20:42PM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

> Regardless of what the DNS mythology claims, the DNS administrator of
> example.com has complete control over the subtree beneath it. That is
> how the DNS is designed. If the owner of a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.example.com
> wants independence from example.com they have only one route and that
> is to buy a domain of their own.

Well, yes and no.

The administrator of example.com has complete control over the subtree
beneath in the sense that s/he can either create names underneath,
_or_ can delegate beneath, _or_ can delete the delegation.  But if the
administrator of example.com delegates away h.i.example.com, s/he has
no control over what goes inside h.i.example.com.

It's trivially true that any name has control of the delegations
beneath it.  But I don't see how it's relevant.

Best,

A

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