Re: [DNSOP] Delegation acceptance checks [was: Re: [Ext] WGLC rfc8499bis one week extension for lame delegation definition]

Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el@lisse.NA> Sat, 06 May 2023 18:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Delegation acceptance checks [was: Re: [Ext] WGLC rfc8499bis one week extension for lame delegation definition]
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The IANA Function Operator does so for all ccTLDs (which would imply
all TLDs).

el

On 06/05/2023 17:20, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that Joe Abley  <jabley@strandkip.nl> said:
>> Pre-delegation checks add friction to the domain registration
>> process.  They further complicate the commuications between different
>> actors in the commercial graph (registrars, registries, resellers,
>> DNS operators, hosting companies) and introduce delay and manual
>> intervention into what might otherwise be a fairly automated or at
>> least automatable process.  ...
> 
> Thirty years ago, when you did domain registrations by e-mail, the
> registry which was then called Network Solutions did indeed check that
> your name servers were active before delegating the domain.  It was
> not an accident that they stopped doing so, and it seems vanishingly
> unlikely that any gTLD registry would do so now, regardless of what
> people here might think.

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