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Re: domain status in registry and registrar

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On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 08:51:15PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 19/8/24 16:11, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 03:49:11PM +0800, Wesley wrote:
> > > First of all, I apologize for my lack of knowledge about the domain name
> > > registration industry.
> > 
> > No need. We all stumble in the dark :-)

[...]

> I think that a simpler way of explaining What Tomas has said, is that
> someone has registered the domain name, but, has not set up web hosting for
> it, so, the domain name is registered, but, the person who registered it,
> has not set up a web site for it.

Even less than that: just a DNS record, i.e. some entry in the global
name database mapping the name to... anything (an IP address, another
name, a mail exchange, whatever).

You can reserve the name and postpone creating a DNS record for it.

As often, the Wikipedia [1] gives a good read on that.

Cheers

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS
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domain status in registry and registrar Wesley <wesley@mxcloud.eu.org> - 2024-08-19 09:50 +0200
  Re: domain status in registry and registrar <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-08-19 10:20 +0200
    Re: domain status in registry and registrar Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2024-08-19 11:00 +0200
    Re: domain status in registry and registrar Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-08-19 15:00 +0200
      Re: domain status in registry and registrar <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-08-19 15:10 +0200
        Re: domain status in registry and registrar Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-08-19 15:40 +0200
          Re: domain status in registry and registrar Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-08-19 16:10 +0200
            Re: domain status in registry and registrar Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-08-19 16:30 +0200
  Re: domain status in registry and registrar Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-08-19 18:40 +0200
    Re: domain status in registry and registrar Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-08-19 18:50 +0200
      Re: domain status in registry and registrar Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-08-19 21:30 +0200
    Re: domain status in registry and registrar Wesley <wesley@mxcloud.eu.org> - 2024-08-20 01:10 +0200
      Re: domain status in registry and registrar Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-08-20 01:20 +0200

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