Re: .org domain went down.

ALL: Just because Afilias is the back end operator for .org I will respond
on this. Scott is absolutely right that TheRegister's story was based on
incorrect information.

CRSNic simply does not contain information for .org domains anymore(see
Whois response from CRSNic.net which says it only contains information on
com/net/edu and registrars). There was no problem with the .org registry or
its Whois system.

TheRegister story was (somewhat) corrected yesterday, as was Simon Perry's
blog and other sites. If you all have questions, please let me know.

Best,
Heather
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-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Scott Lamb
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 9:08 PM
To: Merlin Moncure
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] .org domain went down.


On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 10:48 US/Central, Merlin Moncure wrote:

> According to the register (covered by Slashdot), the .org domain went
> down for a little while.  Isn't that the one running on a postgres
> server?  Does anybody know anything about this?

It's working fine, and I see no evidence that it was anything but
working fine. The Register's article was a bunch of allegations with no
basis in reality. My guess is that someone saw the "No match for
'SLAMB.ORG'."-style message when they did a whois query and assumed
that meant the server was down, when it really meant they were querying
Verisign's server, which doesn't know anything about .org. And then
posted a unsubstantiated rant. And, naturally, the slashdot people
linked to it without verifying.

Scott


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