Re: [registrars] URGENT Domain Deletion inquiry

[Larry Erlich <erlich@domainregistry.com>]

Bhavin Turakhia wrote:
> 
> > A workaround for this is to rename the
> > nameserver to a fictional name, and then
> > delete the domain name. The IP address if
> > any, would be linked to the new fictional name.
> >
> > If the domain was "somename.com" with
> > a nameserver ns1.somename.com, you
> > could rename it ns1.somename.com.delete
> 
> i sorta figured but coupla aspects are we allowed to use fictional names
> like that ie ns1.some.com.delete (a tld that does not exist in the registry)
> cuz from what i heard you can add glue records to the registry only for
> com/net/org domains. other nameservers need to be registered with the
> registry but do not have any ip addresses associated with them, because you
> cannot register ns.abc.biz with the .com registry and provide an ip address
> for it

A good point. The last time we used this
was before VRSN made that change this week.

> 
> probably a better solution would be to register a second level domain like
> lamechildns.com and then whenever we come across something like this change
> it to ns<somenumber>.lamechildns.com.

Right. Or something like somename.com-was-deleted-by-directi.net.lamechildns.com

Larry Erlich

> 
> so in your abv example change ns1.somename.com to ns1.lamechildns.com and
> then delete ns1.somename.com

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