Hello,

I ended up e-mailing reseller support, as was suggested.

--- John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

In this age of DDoS attacks (e.g. Blue Security), one wants to be
careful to play nice, and not be nasty. Having the name move into a
"lame delegation" nameserver (perhaps via some under-reported registry
command?) is better practice than taking control of the domain oneself,
esp. given the potential legal liability of answering for someone
else's domain.
 
> > 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).

Right, I don't want to be in a position to be accused of hijacking
other people's domain -- I play nice. :) Pointing it to a random
routable address is not good either, since someone else can later put
up a nameserver at that IP address.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
http://www.kirikos.com/
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