Deletion of Forward DOMAIN object data from the RIPE Database
[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear Colleagues, The RIPE NCC announced to the mailing lists on 29 March that Forward DOMAIN object data will be deleted this week: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/db-wg/2011/msg00074.html All Forward DOMAIN object data has now been deleted from the RIPE Database, except for the four top-level domain (TLD) operators who are still actively using the RIPE Database. It is not possible for any user to re-create a top-level Forward DOMAIN object in the RIPE Database. Without the TLD object, no second-level DOMAIN object creations can be authorised. When the last four TLD operators have moved their data to their own systems, we will modify the update software so it will not recognise any Forward DOMAIN objects. Regards, Denis Walker RIPE NCC Database Group
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 01:45:32PM +0200, Denis Walker <denis@ripe.net> wrote a message of 21 lines which said:
The RIPE NCC announced to the mailing lists on 29 March that Forward DOMAIN object data will be deleted this week: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/db-wg/2011/msg00074.html
May I ask why "fr" is not in the list? It should have been deleted as well. % whois -h whois.ripe.net -R fr domain: fr descr: Top-level-domain for France descr: AFNIC (NIC France) descr: Domaine de Voluceau B.P. 105 descr: F-78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX, France refer: RIPE whois.nic.fr 43 admin-c: NFC1-RIPE tech-c: NFC1-RIPE zone-c: NFC1-RIPE nserver: ns1.nic.fr nserver: ns2.nic.fr nserver: ns3.nic.fr ... [Completely outdated and unmaintained]
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 02:38:34PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 01:45:32PM +0200, Denis Walker <denis@ripe.net> wrote a message of 21 lines which said:
The RIPE NCC announced to the mailing lists on 29 March that Forward DOMAIN object data will be deleted this week: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/db-wg/2011/msg00074.html
May I ask why "fr" is not in the list? It should have been deleted as well.
% whois -h whois.ripe.net -R fr domain: fr descr: Top-level-domain for France descr: AFNIC (NIC France) descr: Domaine de Voluceau B.P. 105 descr: F-78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX, France refer: RIPE whois.nic.fr 43 admin-c: NFC1-RIPE tech-c: NFC1-RIPE zone-c: NFC1-RIPE nserver: ns1.nic.fr nserver: ns2.nic.fr nserver: ns3.nic.fr ...
[Completely outdated and unmaintained]
It seems that other cc-tld's are also still here. ".pl", ".de", ".cz", ".sk" just for example. Also some strange domain objects like "dnsquery" (taken from ftp DB dump): $ whois -rB -T domain dnsquery domain: dnsquery descr: Reverse delegation admin-c: RB1230-RIPE tech-c: LL271-RIPE zone-c: LL271-RIPE mnt-by: MNT-MNT changed: hostmaster@mynet.it 20050622 source: RIPE Piotr -- gucio -> Piotr Strzyżewski E-mail: Piotr.Strzyzewski@polsl.pl
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 02:38:34PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote a message of 48 lines which said:
May I ask why "fr" is not in the list? It should have been deleted as well.
We just received the notification of deletion. So, apparently, Denis Walker's message was just sent too early.
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 02:38:34PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote a message of 48 lines which said:
May I ask why "fr" is not in the list? It should have been deleted as well.
We just received the notification of deletion. So, apparently, Denis Walker's message was just sent too early.
To be honest it was an oversight on our part. We deleted all the Forward DOMAIN objects ending in .TLD. But the TLD object itself has no '.' so they were not deleted. We have now deleted them all (except for the 4 active TLD operators). Thanks for pointing this out. Incidentally, we have also just deleted a small number of invalid reverse DOMAIN objects as well. For example objects ending in 'in-addr-arpa' with a '-' instead of a '.'. Regards Denis Walker Business Analyst RIPE NCC Database Group
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Stephane Bortzmeyer