[ih] Pre-1997 TLD manager records

[Brian E Carpenter]

> I've heard tell that Jon originally kept records of to whom he delegated 
> TLDs in a notebook

I have no idea whether it was a physical notebook, but certainly in ~1989
it was still Jon personally who did it. I recall (but have no trace
of the email) that Jon politely declined to register 'cern' as a TLD
just before CERN connected, and I think he suggested cern.int, but
we preferred cern.ch.

cern was finally delegated as a TLD in 2014, 25 years after the original
request.

Regards/Ngā mihi
    Brian Carpenter

On 07-May-26 21:43, Nigel Roberts via Internet-history wrote:
> 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).
>>
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