Can I CNAME a TLD directly?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9m8h51$me0 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Dheera Venkatraman <dheera at dheera.net> wrote:
>My question - can I CNAME my tld (dheera.net) directly to a dynamic domain
>(i.e. dheera.yi.org, etc.)? Will there be problems if I do this?

No, you can't.  This violates the "CNAME and other data" prohibition, since
a delegated domain must have SOA and NS records.

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