InterNIC shutdown and TLDs/IN-ADDR ...

On Monday, 15 Dec 1997, Berislav Todorovic writes:

> Hello,

> The following banner can be found at the InterNIC FTP site:

> 220-    Please be advised that on March 31, 1998 InterNIC will be shutting
> 220-    down permanently and will no longer be in service.The databases that
> 220-    you own will need to be either moved to another location or put out
> 220-    of service.
> 220-
> 220-    We apologize for this event but it will be the end of the InterNIC
> 220-    Cooperative Agreement that was funded by the National Science
> 220-    Foundation and AT&T.

> I knew the fact that NSI lost its contract with the NSF from earlier. Any
> comments on impacts of this shutdown on the root servers, in-addr.arpa
> zone, nTLDs and gTLDs?

IP address allocation and reverse lookup matters (IN-ADDR.ARPA) have
been handed over to ARIN. This does not affect domain names, as far
as I know, since this is not decided yet. US Gov is working on it.
 
> Regards,
> Beri

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Marcel