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Domain shut downs by Registrar?

Subject: Domain shut downs by Registrar?
From: johnl at iecc.com (John R. Levine)
Date: 3 Dec 2010 13:39:15 -0500
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> I think Verisign DBMS acts as a registrar for ccTLDs.

No, they're a registry.  Not the same thing.

The registry holds the definitive database and manages the DNS zone. 
Registrars face the public and use some sort of API to pass the changes to 
the registry.

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John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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