[sllug-members]: domain question

[Spute, Mark K at CSW-SLC]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 20:08 -0700, Mark K. Spute wrote:
> > The SOA for um. is venera.isi.edu, which is the Information Sciences
> > Institute at USC. The serial number is 2000120103. Based on that, I
> > would guess that the domain is largely (if not completely) unused.
> 
> I know that USC/ISI is the stated registrar.  Why based on that, or on 
> the serial number, would you guess that it is completely unused.  I 
> don't follow.

USC isn't necessarily the registrar, but they're hosting the DNS. I
wouldn't expect a university to be handling registrar functions ala
Godaddy, et. al. /Could/ happen, but seems a little weird.

The nail in the coffin really is that the date of last change of the
zone was 12/01/2000. So in the last almost six years, no subdomains have
been added. That sounds pretty much unused to me.

Okay.  That makes sense to me.  Thanks!