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by tptacek 5728 days ago
What's the bargain Libya struck up with the IETF/IANA regarding delegations under .LY?
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jrockway 5728 days ago
Maintaining records so that delegation to the owner of a domain happens. VB.LY owns VB.LY. LY stopped delegating.

This breaks the Internet.

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tptacek 5728 days ago
This exact same argument says that Namecheap should lose its registrar status for "breaking the internet" when people don't pay to renew their domains.

Similarly, if Apple ever made the mistake of setting up an NS record pointing JROCKWAY.APPLE.COM to your nameserver, they'd be "breaking the internet" to change their mind.

The reality is that there is no technical difference at all between LY. and APPLE.COM.

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jrockway 5728 days ago
No technical difference, but as a TLD, they should be held to a higher standard.
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