[ih] Pre-1997 TLD manager records

[Greg Skinner]

On May 9, 2026, at 3:22 AM, Jaap Akkerhuis via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> broken wrist, so short reaction
> the NL TLD was registered by the cwi 40 years ago using same structured email as used for ip-numbers.
> like toad, names servers where at seismo (and brl).
> getting tired of the questions we published a howto-get-a-cctld document what a lot of people used.
> i have no clue how postel did his administration but get a tad tired to hear about this secret notebook.
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> 	jaap
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After looking into this a bit more, the ‘Duane’ Nigel referred to may be Duane Stone.  His name came up in some Internet Monthly Reports and namedroppers email. [1] [2] Also, he (or someone else who received email sent to domreg at internic.net <mailto:domreg at internic.net>) may have received the request made by Joshua Quittner of Wired to register mcdonalds.com <http://mcdonalds.com/>. [3]

--gregbo

[1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/lNtMG3i0GYL-uRCKUKvgy_-kESA/
[2] https://marc.info/?l=namedroppers&m=95837825027198&w=2
[3] https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projects/1997-98/domain-names/problems/grabbing.html