[ncdnhc-discuss] WHOIS and registered DNS servers: DNS name servers with domain names under ccTLDs unable to resolve domain names under gTLDs

[Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales]

Hi to all:

As you may know, many Non-Commercial Organization offers virtual hosting
including DNS resolution to many other
Non-Commercial Organizations.

Also many Non-Commercial Organizations has its DNS resolution servers
with domain names under ccTLDs.

SDNP Guatemala some months ago, and now SDNP Panama recently, by request
of an user, registered a domain name
under a gTLD (perhaps .ORG).  However, when it was the time to provide
the DNS name server and IP address the automatic
response is that such name server and/or IP address is not a registered
DNS server.

After reading more about this issue, it happens that WHOIS service only
includes domain names and DNS servers under gTLDs and nothing about
domain name servers neither DNS servers under ccTLD.

Although this is not new, I have never though that the fact that WHOIS
doesn't have any data exchange with ccTLDs WHOIS data, would be a
problem for Non-Commercial Organizations as us for provide
DNS resolution services.

And, in the meanwhile I am writting this, now I am begining to suspect
why our domain NCDNHC.ORG has delayed a lot in being
setted up with the new DNS server IP:  because the primary DNS server we
provided is under a ccTLD.

Please, those in the WHOIS TF, if you can address this problem in the
WHOIS TF, to evaluate if this problem has its solution in
create a policy where WHOIS of gTLDs has to be interconnected with WHOIS
of ccTLDs, or if the solution is to implement a policy where neither
Registrars nor Registries make automatic verification in the WHOIS, in
order DNS servers with domain
names under ccTLDs also can be the DNS servers for domain names under
gTLDs.

I won't accept as an answer that what we should do is to register a
domain name under gTLD and set our Name Servers with such domain,
because this is the easy solution...however, not the proper solution.

What do other thinks?  I think this is a problem that affects many
Non-Commercial Organizations with domain names under ccTLDs, and this is
a good chance to suggest a policy in the best interest, not only for the
Non-Commercial sectors, but also
to many other sectors that are forced to register domain names under
gTLDs only to be able to provide DNS resolution services.

Best Regards
Vany

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Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales, BSEE
Information Technology Specialist
Sustainable Development Networking Programme/Panama
Member of the ICANN's DNSO Non-Commercial Constituency
e-mail: vany at sdnp.org.pa
http://www.sdnp.org.pa

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