George Kirikos wrote: > I acquired a domain name that had some nameservers defined for it, that > are being used by some other domains.
So what. You are fully capable of taking that nameserver offline (incapable of responding to queries) or just create wildcard records for those foreign domains that will kill their nameservices. It should be trivial to force someone to change their nameserver record by being nasty, so it should be easy to convince them to reconfigure their domains by being nice. It is very possible that the other domains are not even aware that their nameserver records are pointing to someone else's nameserver (they may be simply clueless). If all of these domains were, at one time, controlled by one entity, the other domains may simply not know that their nameservices are incorrectly configured. > I don't want to point it to a routable IP address, lest someone hijack > the other domains. I don't understand this concern, however. *You* control the nameserver and what records it serves up. No one can hijack anything since you are the one in control of the IP address. *You* can hijack (at least partially, see below) the other domains, but no one else can (unless they control one of the other nameservers for those domains). > Is there anything I can do, assuming I can't compel strangers to change > their nameservers? Have you tried to contact these other domains? If you can't get in contact with them using their domain registration, create records in the nameserver that resolve, say, www.example.com to 127.0.0.1. This will mean that if they have three nameservers defined, about one third of the time their website won't resolve for external users. Eventually, they'll get a clue and contact you. > I don't want to receive abuse reports for unauthorized domains using > nameservers with host names under my domains. That's what MUA rules are good at; just delete them unread. John _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
