Deletion of .de domain objects

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 04:26:03PM +0000, Stephen Burley wrote:
> That ones easy, it should never have been used for this info RIPE is the 
> rIPe repository not the domains authority. 

Perhaps it wasn't designed for this usage, but it was clearly the best
system we ever had for domain registry. You could use the same person
handles for a number of top level domains which reduced the work in a great
way. Now we will have to cope with different person handles for every
registry, with complicated update procedures and so on. 

The wiser solution would be, if the registries would have agreed on
supporting the central ripe database by funding and services. I don't see
how the costs can be lower for several independent registries than for one
community-payed-for central registry. 

If you want to see what can happen when all this information disappears from
ripe and will be moved to other registries, just take the DeNIC (or the
CORE) as an example. For both registries i don't know how to update my
handles or can do it only by asking an official registrar / member.

This fragmentation of registries will only lead to unreliable and outdated
informations in the databases. 

> The only domains that are in there are the reverse domains for very good 
> reasons. 

No, the ripe database contains in the moment data for at least 21 top
level (country) domains.

> designed to for this use and so give the RIPE community back the level of
> response from the servers/systems the community funded and frankly deserve.

The ripe database was always very well in service. 

-- 
With kind regards

Michael Holzt