VeriSign demands website takedown powers

[McTim]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Nuno Garcia <ngarcia at ngarcia.net> wrote:

> I am not sure I agree when you say the registry is in the US.


Verisign is the Registry.  They run "A" root-server and .com and .net They
are in the US.

If you want to disable a .com domain, you need to delete the zone for that
domain from the .com database.

It's like this:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>dig com. ngarcia.net @
a.gtld-servers.net.
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 640
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;com.                           IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.                    852     IN      SOA     a.gtld-servers.net.
nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1318353338 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 156 msec
;; SERVER: 196.200.16.2#53(196.200.16.2)
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 11 20:16:58 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 94


; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> com. ngarcia.net @a.gtld-servers.net.
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 348
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ngarcia.net.                   IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ngarcia.net.            172800  IN      NS      ns25.domaincontrol.com.
ngarcia.net.            172800  IN      NS      ns26.domaincontrol.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns25.domaincontrol.com. 172800  IN      A       216.69.185.13
ns26.domaincontrol.com. 172800  IN      A       208.109.255.13

;; Query time: 562 msec
;; SERVER: 192.5.6.30#53(192.5.6.30)
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 11 20:16:59 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 116



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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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