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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Domain Registration
Message-ID: <768@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Dec-83 21:59:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 30 21:59:26 1983
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RFC881 gives the rules for domain registration.  Top level domains
are kept by the ARPANET NIC (network information center).  Basically,
you must (a) have a responsible person with the authority to shut
off people who do bad things, (b) have a list of sites which is kept
up to date, (c) provide two nameserviers to access list (b).
These nameservers must be accessable from the ARPA Internet.
RFC881 was posted to net.sources on Dec 20, Message-ID <749@cbosgd.UUCP>.

By the way, I think "ENET" is a poor choice of domain name.  "Digital"
or "DEC" would make much more sense.

	Mark Horton