Re: [GENERAL] Postgres-based system to run .org registry? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Postgres-based system to run .org registry?
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Msg-id 1158.1034629006@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Postgres-based system to run .org registry?  ("David De Graff" <postgresql@awarehouse.com>)
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"David De Graff" <postgresql@awarehouse.com> writes:
> The Internet Society (ISOC) won the bid to replace Verisign as the .org
> registry. They're going to subcontract to Afilias, who has been running the
> .info registry.

Cool.

> See:
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14oct02.htm
> http://www.afilias.info/about_afilias/dotorg/index_html
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23669-2002Oct14.html

> Is this the same group that recently asked for input on their proposal,
> which specified Postgres as the registry database?

Yes, same bunch.  Andrew Sullivan, whose name you may have seen on the
lists, is the DBA for the .info registry; I suppose he will be running
the .org registry now too ...

            regards, tom lane

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