I'm vaguely considering changing the names of my nameservers for cosmetic reasons (specifically, from nsX.tigertech.com to nsX.tigertech.net).
I'm reluctant to do it because it seems like a recipe for disaster (thousands of domains use these nameservers), but since the OpenSRS interface gives us the power to do it, I thought I'd ask if anyone else has actually done so in a similar situation. I assume that for each nameserver name change under, say, .com, OpenSRS submits a single request to Verisign GRS. They will then delete the glue record for the old nameserver, add a glue record for the new one, and update all domains that use that nameserver to point to the new name. However, what about non-Verisign registry TLDs? I know that for some TLDs, OpenSRS manually adds nameservers. Presumably my nameservers were manually added to, say, the .biz registry (and all that was added is a flag that says "ns1.tigertech.com is a legitimate nameserver", not a full glue record). Would those entries be updated automatically? What about other registries that are completely unrelated to OpenSRS that may have manually added my nameservers without my knowledge? Anyway, as I said, my instinct screams to leave it alone, and I probably will. Just thought I'd ask in case there's something I'm not aware of that automatically solves all these problems. A nice side effect of such a change, by the way, is that I suspect it would finally eliminate my "bogus IP address from an old HST record at NSI registrar" problem. :-) -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
