[RFCI-Discuss] .NU considered harmful

[Alan Brown]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Jeff Makey wrote:

> I see that the .NU top-level domain already has a whois listing, but
> today I noticed that there is a pair of wildcard A records for *.NU.
> The reason they did this, of course, is to intercept HTTP connections
> to non-existent .NU domains and to offer the chance to register them.
> However, this defeats sendmail's sanity check that a sender's domain
> must exist because no SMTP server is listening on either of the two IP
> addresses.

This is hardly surpriasing when you know who their technical advisors
and marketing advosors are - the people who screwed up NZ DNS quite
badly and at one stage hired 3 separate sets of consultants before they
found one who would sign off on a DNS project which in the end turned
out to be so badly broken it cost the NZ Internet society over a million
dollars to write off and replace.