CNAME and other data -vs- could not find NS and/or SOA records

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

JM> Who are the TLDs, anyway?  

A Top-Level Domain is a "what", not a "who".

JM> [...] how do the Registrars typically feed data [...]

Registrars feed data to registries (using a Registry-mandated protocol).  A
registry controls what is in the DNS database of one set of peer content DNS
servers (such as the "org." content DNS servers) and hence what is published.

<URL:http://www.verisign.net./nds/naming/faq.html>