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["Bjorn Peeters" <bjorn AT bjornpeeters.be>]

I agree.
So do the RFC's, btw :)

from RFC920 (domain requirements):

"Domain Servers:

    A robust and reliable domain server must be provided.  One way of
    meeting this requirement is to provide at least two independent
    domain servers for the domain."

One of the massive problems on the ICANN managed side of things is exactly 
that:
Most tld's do not enforce any policy whatsoever about having a domain 
actually be available,
resulting in lots of domains not being used or accessible to anyone, which 
is an annoyance.
(i.e.: a domain that resolves and just redirects everything to another 
domain, fine, but one that doesn't even hold a ns record is a bad thing)

So, it might indeed be a good idea to enforce this kind of behaviour 
througout opennic:
i.e.: domains registered need to have at least 1 nameserver in their dns 
within 90 days or expire.

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- 
From: Jamyn Shanley
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:55 PM
To: discuss AT lists.opennicproject.org
Subject: [opennic-discuss] Does OpenNIC have any domain expiration policy?

After finding that the first few .ing domains I wanted were taken, I
decided to run a quick test. I retrieved the 1000 most common english
words from a random site (example:
http://www.insightin.com/esl/1000.php). Then, I queried the
register.ing page for each word. Finally, after finding which domains
were taken, I looked up each of those to see if they resolved.

163/1000 domains were taken from that list.
0/163 had a dns record; they didn't resolve at all.

My authoritative DNS server for this test was: 216.167.252.195.

This of course is not a comprehensive test, as most people will
register partial words to play on the 'ing' domain. However, I think
it illustrates the issue. It seems like domains that have no DNS
records should expire reasonably quickly (90 days?) to allow for use
by someone who will actually do something with them. I have not
checked the other registrars yet, but in order to stay relevant (and
prevent reservation of domains that are never used), there should be
some expiration policy in place.


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