Re: Pre-1997 TLD manager records

Nigel Roberts via Internet-history <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

You can.

Here is how toad.com was registered, which was one of the first 100 .com
domain names.  It was all done by sending structured ascii emails to
[email protected].  It's not a TLD, I'm sorry if that was all that
you were interested in.

This registration was done by the SRI-NIC (at the former Stanford
Research Institute).  This was before the tiny minority business Network
Solutions won the fixed-price annual contract to manage the DNS.  And
long before Network Solutions was acquired for peanuts by greedhead
beltway bandit SAIC, which immediately started illegally charging every
domain user annually (or canceling their domain name if they wouldn't
pay).  And long before SAIC sold Network Solutions stock to the public
during the Internet bubble and then transferred the hundreds of millions
in proceeds directly back to SAIC (which has no stockholders other than
its own employees).  DNS administration has been a racket ever since,
after SAIC showed the unscrupulous how to do it.

	John

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[ NETINFO:DOMAIN-TEMPLATE.TXT ]                            [ 2/87, DBDOC ]

To establish a domain, the following information must be provided to
the NIC Domain Registrar ([email protected]):

   Note:  The key people must have computer mail mailboxes and
   NIC "Handles", unique NIC database identifiers.  If they do not
   at present, please remedy the situation at once.  A NIC Handle may
   be established by contacting [email protected].

   1)  The name of the top level domain to join.

      COM

   2)  The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and organization
   of the administrative head of the organization.  This is the contact
   point for administrative and policy questions about the domain.  In
   the case of a research project, this should be the Principal
   Investigator.  The online mailbox and NIC Handle of this person should
   also be included.

         Administrator

            Organization  Nebula Consultants
            Name          John Gilmore
            Title         
            Mail Address  PO Box 170608
                          San Francisco, CA  94117
            Phone Number  +1 415 221 6524
            Net Mailbox   [email protected]
            NIC Handle    PENDING

   3)  The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and organization
   of the domain technical contact.  The online mailbox and NIC Handle of
   the domain technical contact should also be included.  This is the
   contact point for problems with the domain and for updating
   information about the domain.  Also, the domain technical contact may
   be responsible for hosts in this domain.

            Organization  Nebula Consultants
            Name          John Gilmore
            Title         
            Mail Address  PO Box 170608
                          San Francisco, CA  94117
            Phone Number  +1 415 221 6524
            Net Mailbox   [email protected]
            NIC Handle    PENDING

   4)  The name, title, mailing address, phone number, and organization
   of the zone technical contact.  The online mailbox and NIC Handle of
   the zone technical contact should also be included.  This is the
   contact point for problems with the zone and for updating information
   about the zone.  In many cases the zone technical contact and the
   domain technical contact will be the same person.

            Organization  Nebula Consultants
            Name          John Gilmore
            Title         
            Mail Address  PO Box 170608
                          San Francisco, CA  94117
            Phone Number  +1 415 221 6524
            Net Mailbox   [email protected]
            NIC Handle    PENDING

   5)  The name of the domain (up to 12 characters).  This is the name
   that will be used in tables and lists associating the domain and the
   domain server addresses.  [While technically domain names can be
   quite long (programmers beware), shorter names are easier for people
   to cope with.]

	TOAD

   6)  A description of the servers that provides the domain service for
   translating name to address for hosts in this domain, and the date
   they will be operational.

	We will be running the BIND software as provided by UC Berkeley.
	The servers are currently operational.

   7)  Domains should provide at least two independent servers for the
   domain.  A description of the server machine and its back-up, including:

	Primary:
		Sequent Balance 2100 and UNIX
		uunet.UU.NET 192.12.141.129 on CSS-ETHER

	Secondary:
		Sun 3/160 and UNIX
		seismo.CSS.GOV 192.12.141.25 on CSS-ETHER

   8)  Planned mapping of names of any other network hosts, other than
   the server machines, into the new domain's naming space.

	none

   9)  Delegation for networks in your domain for inclusion in the
   IN-ADDR.ZONE files, and the fully qualified domain names for the 
   IN-ADDR server sites for each network.  (If the IN-ADDR servers
   are omitted, the servers specified for the domain  will be used
   as the default when the IN-ADDR.ZONE file is generated.)

	This domain will not be directly connected to the internet,
	so the IN-ADDR.ARPA domain is not applicable.

  10)  An estimate of the number of hosts that will be in the domain.

         (a) initially  =  3
         (b) one year   =  4
         (c) two years  =  10
         (d) five years =  10

  11)  A date when you expect the fully qualified domain name to
   become the official host name in HOSTS.TXT.

	The host name should never appear in host.txt. MX records
	to forward mail off the internet will be established.


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Subject: NIC Handle application

   FULL NAME:			John Gilmore
   U.S. MAIL ADDRESS:		PO Box 170608, SF, CA 94117
   PHONE:			+1 415 931 4667
   AUTHORIZING HOST:		uunet.uu.net
   PRIMARY LOGIN NAME:		gnu
   PRIMARY NETWORK MAILBOX:	[email protected] (domain assignment pending)
   MILNET TAC ACCESS? (y/n):	y
   TERMINATION DATE:		none
   HANDLE:        		none yet



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We have registered you and assigned a handle - JG150.

Nancy
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 87 15:02:57 EDT
From: uunet!seismo.CSS.GOV!rick (Rick Adams)
To: hoptoad!gnu
Subject: [toad.com domain registration at SRI-NIC] the wheels continue to slowly turn...


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	Rick,
	
	This is to let you know that we have registered the TOAD.COM domain.  It
	will take a few days before the root servers are updated, but feel free
	at that time to query it to verify the information.
	
	Debra
	
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I'll let you know when it really exists.

---rick
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