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[Tim Groeneveld <tim AT timgws.com.au>]

the .ing charter specifies:

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dot ING domains must be resolvable. That is, one or more of the name servers 
that are registered with the TLD operator as being authoritative for the 
domain must carry a valid zone for the domain, including a valid SOA record, 
at all times.
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( http://register.ing/charter/ )

If there is a domain name that you would like that is .ing that does not 
resolve, please let me know.

I have also noticed a large amount of domains that are not correctly 
registered, and will be working on culling these in the next couple of weeks.

Regards,
Tim



----- Original Message -----
> 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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