From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 19 19:51:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647E216A430 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 19:51:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5EBF443D64 for ; Fri, 19 May 2006 19:51:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27593 invoked by uid 399); 19 May 2006 19:51:27 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 May 2006 19:51:27 -0000 Message-ID: <446E21BD.1000504@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 12:51:25 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060507) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Duane Whitty References: <446D157A.4070308@greenmeadow.ca> In-Reply-To: <446D157A.4070308@greenmeadow.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Domain Name Registrars X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:51:34 -0000 Duane Whitty wrote: > All I want to do is have my registrar point the name server entries for a > .com domain I'm managing at the name servers I'm running. Why is this so > difficult? Or expensive? > > Is it my fault? Am I doing something wrong? -- I know, kinda hard to > answer that. Without more detail, yes, however ... > My registrar told me my name server needs to be registered with ICANN. Your registrar is smoking crack. There is no such requirement (nor could there be). I am quite sure about this, I used to work at ICANN. I would suggest that you run, do not walk, to transfer your domains to another registrar. Then, I'd send ICANN a complaint about the registrar you are using currently. karen.lentz@icann.org is your best bet, assuming things haven't changed too much since I left. hope this helps, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection