Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 04:10:09AM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was trying to find out the reason why the "delegation-only" zone was >> removed >> in 4.5 as it was there as far back as 3.5. marc.info search on misc list show >> the last reference to that as May 2007. >> >> Not a big deal, I was just trying to understand why it may not be needed, or >> seen as useful anymore? >> >> There is lots of content at that regards years back, but not much anymore or >> as >> to why not to be used now. >> >> Any inside may be as to why then? >> > > It was added during the time .com added a *.com entry to their zone to > redirect everybody to some website. It was dropped a bit later because of > all the compains and I hopefully doubt it will ever come back. So the > "delegation-only" hack is no longer needed for these zones.
Thanks for the answer and the details. But Verisign wasn't the only one doing it based on feedback on the net. But I could be wrong. Anyway, nice to know it's getting better.
