Re: Pre-1997 TLD manager records
"Marco Davids \(Private\) via Internet-history" <[email protected]>
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Oohhh...! As an employee of SIDN, the ccTLD registry for .nl, which is celebrating 40 years of .nl this year (and 30 years of SIDN), I would really love to have a photocopy of the particular page in that notebook where Jon wrote down our delegation! I propose we start looking for it! ;-) -- Marco On Thu, 7 May 2026 17:36:26 -0400 vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote: > There was a physical notebook. I believe it is still in the hands of > USC-ISI. > > vint > > > On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 5:28 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>> I've heard tell that Jon originally kept records of to whom he delegated >>> TLDs in a notebook >> >> I have no idea whether it was a physical notebook, but certainly in ~1989 >> it was still Jon personally who did it. I recall (but have no trace >> of the email) that Jon politely declined to register 'cern' as a TLD >> just before CERN connected, and I think he suggested cern.int, but >> we preferred cern.ch. >> >> cern was finally delegated as a TLD in 2014, 25 years after the original >> request. >> >> Regards/Ngā mihi >> Brian Carpenter >> >> On 07-May-26 21:43, Nigel Roberts via Internet-history wrote: >>> These steers are helpful particularly when knowing what NOT to expect. >>> >>> What I would particularly like to document is how domain registration >>> records(which included ALL domains at this point) arrived at NSI, and in >>> what form. >>> >>> And go back further in time, if I can. >>> >>> On 5/7/26 09:54, Andrew Sullivan via Internet-history wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 11:59:23PM -0500, Greg Skinner via Internet- >>>> history wrot> You might try the namedroppers list archive <https:// >>>> marc.info/?l=namedroppers&r=1&w=2> >>>> >>>> Also, if you only knew about namedroppers from its association with DNS >>>> working groups at the IETF, it was not only associated with that. The >>>> final break happened in, IIRC, 2010, but the association was not very >>>> well formalized (which partly caused some of the sudden changes to the >>>> use of the list). So, don't assume that reading that will also catch >>>> the relevant DNS WGs (in the unlikely event you did expect that). >>>> >>>> A >>>> >>> >> -- >> Internet-history mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history >> - >> Unsubscribe: >> https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history >> -- Marco 🐾 -- Internet-history mailing list [email protected] https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history - Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history