nic.ch is in the ch zone itself. So it's not a zone of its own.
You will find it in whois so that people see that it's not available anymore.
btw. SOA record reveals that:
dig nic.ch soa
; <<>> DiG 9.8.5-P1 <<>> nic.ch soa ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28601 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;nic.ch. IN SOA
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ch. 3582 IN SOA a.nic.ch. helpdesk.nic.ch. 2014050715 900 600 1209600 3600
Daniel, SWITCH
On Wed, 07 May 2014 16:15:32 +0200 Daniel Stirnimann daniel.stirnimann@switch.ch wrote:
nic.ch is in the ch zone itself. So it's not a zone of its own.
Hhmm... in times long gone, it was possible to register MX records for domains that were only used for mail directly in the CH tld. This was later stopped, claiming the tld should exclusively be used for domain delegations, not direct resource records. While I understand the intention of putting nic.ch directly as a resource record into .ch, isn't this a violation of that rule that was established then?
Cheers, Markus
On Wed, 7 May 2014 16:44:44 +0200, swinog-list@dudes.ch said:
On Wed, 07 May 2014 16:15:32 +0200 Daniel Stirnimann daniel.stirnimann@switch.ch wrote:
nic.ch is in the ch zone itself. So it's not a zone of its own.
Hhmm... in times long gone, it was possible to register MX records for domains that were only used for mail directly in the CH tld. This was later stopped, claiming the tld should exclusively be used for domain delegations, not direct resource records. While I understand the intention of putting nic.ch directly as a resource record into .ch, isn't this a violation of that rule that was established then?
I'm not going to comment this, but maybe the following anecdote will make you feel better. I originally wanted to use ns.ch for the ch name servers. This was turned down internally because it would violate our "two-letter second level domain rule", which, I'm sure you know, makes these domains unavailable for registration with the exception of the "Kantonskürzel", which are assigned to the proper authorities.
Salut,
On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:54:07PM +0200, gall@switch.ch wrote:
I'm not going to comment this, but maybe the following anecdote will make you feel better. I originally wanted to use ns.ch for the ch name servers. This was turned down internally because it would violate our "two-letter second level domain rule", which, I'm sure you know, makes these domains unavailable for registration with the exception of the "Kantonskürzel", which are assigned to the proper authorities.
So the domain ns.ch is kept available in case the cantons of northern switzerland ever fusion into one big one. Very clever, reveals a lot of foresight!
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