Ross,
I think you mean to say:
"released into the namespace" meaning no longer in existance as far
as /any registrar or registry/ is concerned.
A domain which is "on hold" does not exist in DNS, yet it is not
available, and is not released into the namespace.
D
At 11:20 PM -0400 8/14/00, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
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>> By "released into the namespace", what do you mean? Is that the same
>> as "removed from the central whois server"?
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>"released into the namespace" meaning no longer in existance as far as DNS
>is concerned - at all levels. There is no central whois server with the
>ICANN/NSI registry system - it is distributed out to the registrars, each
>responsible for maintaining the whois records for the SLDs that they
>sponsor in the "legacy" root registry.
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>Ross Wm. Rader
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>Channel Platform Group
>Tucows Inc.
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