James; > Dean wrote: > >The fact still remains that DNS entries do not necessarilly imply > >registration, and that the DNS protocol cannot be used to make registry > >queries. > > This is getting so far from the topic it's not funny. > > Do any of the systems broken by Verisign try and do REGISTRY queries through > DNS? No. So how is this relevant AT ALL to what Verisign have done? As you can observe, Dean keep saying just "names" and "registry" and trying to hide the fact that we are discussing on "domain names" and "registry of domain names". Masataka Ohta