[ih] Pre-1997 TLD manager records

[Nigel Roberts]

These steers are helpful particularly when knowing what NOT to expect.

What I would particularly like to document is how domain registration 
records(which included ALL domains at this point) arrived at NSI, and in 
what form.

And go back further in time, if I can.

On 5/7/26 09:54, Andrew Sullivan via Internet-history wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 11:59:23PM -0500, Greg Skinner via Internet- 
> history wrot> You might try the namedroppers list archive <https:// 
> marc.info/?l=namedroppers&r=1&w=2>
> 
> Also, if you only knew about namedroppers from its association with DNS 
> working groups at the IETF, it was not only associated with that.  The 
> final break happened in, IIRC, 2010, but the association was not very 
> well formalized (which partly caused some of the sudden changes to the 
> use of the list).  So, don't assume that reading that will also catch 
> the relevant DNS WGs (in the unlikely event you did expect that).
> 
> A
> 

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