On 26 Jan 2014, at 15:08, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele@blacknight.com> wrote:
And I thought this paper was about domains more than domain registries?
Indeed it is. However the point I made remains. So I repeat it: DNS service for some domain does not necessarily rest with a single entity. ie all the authoritative name servers for a domain might not be under the same administrative and operational control: SLAs, reporting and incident response procedures, legal jurisdictions, contracts, T&Cs, etc. Even if all the names you manage for your customers are on Blacknight's DNS servers Michele, it doesn't follow that every domain name registration with every other registrar follows that model. A government or regulator who is thinking about deploying DNS filtering/blocking or whatever needs to bear that in mind.