Hi Joann,

In order to host a domain outside of the DoC root zone all you need to do
is set it up on your server just like you would any other domain name.

If you're curious, a friend of ours set up this engine so you can see the
other known top level domains throughout the internet and where the zone
servers are at:  http://root-dns.org/vuedig.htm

In this case, if you type in 'sport' you actually have two choices.  The
original .sport TLD was/is managed by Pacific Root and the one at new.net
came later.

Once you see the choices you find that the one at Pacific Root does not
have a bsf.sport domain but the one at new.net does as below:

[shore][blackhole][18:20:03][~]$ dig @tld4.newdotnet.net bsf.sport

; <<>> DiG 9.1.1 <<>> @tld4.newdotnet.net bsf.sport
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19303
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;bsf.sport.                     IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
bsf.sport.              7200    IN      NS      ns2.domainnameservers.net.
bsf.sport.              7200    IN      NS      ns.domainnameservers.net.

;; Query time: 321 msec
;; SERVER: 204.74.101.253#53(tld4.newdotnet.net)
;; WHEN: Mon Jul  7 18:20:42 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 83

But still no unusual action is required on your part.  People who are able
and know how to resolve the domain just look at your servers to find it
just like they would a .com, .net, .cc, etc.

I'm not sure where or if new.net has a port 43 whois server.  I can see if
I can find out if you'd like.  We resolve some of the new.net TLDs here
and our port 43 answers for them also...but in this case we resolve the
Pacific Root .sport since it was created first.

Any other questions, feel free to ask...this is what I do :)

          -=Dena Whitebirch=-
    "Internet Powered by Experience"
          http://quasar.net/

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, jramer wrote:

> Hello;
>
> Does anyone know about the tld .sport? I cannot seem to find any info on
> this except that it has something to do with new.net. A customer
> registered it with http://dollardomainname.com, pointed it to our
> nameservers and it doesn't display in any whois. And if I dig the
> domainname:
>
> dig bsf.sport
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> bsf.sport
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 45327
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;bsf.sport.                     IN      A
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> .                       10800   IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2003070400 1800 900 604800 86400
>
> ;; Query time: 174 msec
> ;; SERVER: 66.197.217.12#53(66.197.217.12)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Jul  4 11:38:15 2003
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 102
>
> Do we need to add something to our end? We've never had this problem before.
>
> Regards;
>
> Joann
>
>
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