Hosting multiple TLDs

Michele Chubirka chubirka at bellatlantic.net
Fri Aug 22 23:32:25 UTC 2003


Yup, that's actually what I meant. Sorry. So is there a problem with hosting
multiple 2nd-level domains, combining .edu's and .org's? is there some rule
against it?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Margolin" <barry.margolin at level3.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
To: <chubirka at gwu.edu>
Cc: <barmar=archive at genuity.com>; <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Hosting multiple TLDs


> In article <bi64st$tja$1 at sf1.isc.org> you write:
> >A coworker told me the following, which he said was ICANN policy:
> >It is a violation of ICANN regulations for the authoritative nameserver
> >for an EDU TLD to also host .com or .org TLDs. Is there any accuracy to
> >this statement? I've never heard of it and see EDU TLD nameservers host
> >.org and .com TLDs all the time. Are they in violation of ICANN
> >regulations?
>
> The authoritative nameservers for the EDU TLD are:
>
> edu. 42072 IN NS a3.nstld.com.
> edu. 42072 IN NS b3.nstld.com.
> edu. 42072 IN NS c3.nstld.com.
> edu. 42072 IN NS d3.nstld.com.
> edu. 42072 IN NS e3.nstld.com.
> edu. 42072 IN NS f3.nstld.com.
> edu. 42072 IN NS g3.nstld.com.
> edu. 42072 IN NS l3.nstld.com.
> edu. 42072 IN NS m3.nstld.com.
>
> The authoritative nameservers for the COM TLD are:
>
> com. 79385 IN NS a.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS b.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS c.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS d.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS e.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS f.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS g.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS h.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS i.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS j.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS k.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS l.gtld-servers.net.
> com. 79385 IN NS m.gtld-servers.net.
>
> It doesn't look like the same servers are hosting both TLD.  I think
you're
> confusing top-level domains with 2nd-level domains.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com
> Level(3), Woburn, MA
>



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