> It is more important that a domain registrar not refuse to register a > domain, or erroneously declare a valid listing invalid. > > The purpose of using a registrar is to establish DNS delegation, not > to validate your site's redundancy meets the absolute best possible > practices for fault tolerance.
just for my curiosity, where do you draw the line for technical compliance? do the servers need to serve the zone? does the served zone need to have the same NS RRset as the request and hence parent? do the servers need to be able to answer compliant dns queries? over tcp too? your first paragraph quoted above would seem to say that none of this is needed. the registrar's job is to stick the delegation in the parent zone and actually functioning name service be damned. randy, a naggumite
