From: jfricker@vertexgroup.com (John F. Fricker)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:42:12 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: Alternic.net (was domain zapping)
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960626174302.0099dcf8@vertexgroup.com>
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At 05:54 AM 6/26/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>William Knowles writes:
>> With all the talk about InterNIC zapping domains, there should be
>> some talk about other registries, Alternic.net : http://www.alternic.net
>> is offering an alpha test for registering new TLD's and the prices
>> are considerably less expensive than the Internic.
>
<snip crap>
>
>They can offer to sell you anything they like, of course, and you can
>pay them, but you don't get anything at all for the money. Domains
>registered with them don't appear in the real DNS.
>
>.pm

Perry,

What constitutes "real DNS"?

DNS server administrators need only add one line to their named.boot file to
resolve .nic hosts.

secondary       nic     204.94.42.1             db.nic


It's that easy! The concept of centralized name resolutions is flawed and
only exists out of habit. 

J.