On Tuesday 08 July 2008 09:46:42 George Kirikos wrote:
> 
> However, if the registry yanked the domain name itself from its zone,
> the website and any services associated with it would go into a black
> hole.

Yes, I was merely noting that if the registry yanked our company's main domain 
name, we'd only lose 2 out of 4 name servers for the things that our DNS 
servers do that are probably more important than the company itself.

I think this is the definitive argument for not removing stuff from the DNS 
lightly, is that the consequences are incalculable because there is no way to 
tell what domains have name servers in this domain query (or even the less 
complete queries - tell me what name servers are in this domain - or what 
domains this name server serves).

As such any director of a registry should be asking their insurers exactly how 
bad it could be if they accidently yanked a domain name that had important 
name servers in (say something obscure like co.id), versus what sort of 
liability might be incurred by providing a domain someone else is choosing to 
serve illegal content under. I suspect the answers are "lots" v "none".
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