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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:13:10 -0400
On Jun 27, 2008, at 6:44 AM, Jon Kibler wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marshall Eubanks wrote:On Jun 27, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Jon Kibler wrote: Jeff Shultz wrote:Owen DeLong wrote:On that note, it will be very interesting to see who manages to registerthe *.sucks TLD, and what they do with it.Well, I guess this shoots in the foot Microsoft's name server best practices of setting up your AD domain as foo.LOCAL, using the logic that .LOCAL is safe because it cannot be resolved by the root name servers. Who wants to be the first to try to register *.local?They should have been following RFC 2606.Regards MarshallThinking about it a little more, what about the common use of 'localhost.localdomain' for 127.0.0.1 in most versions of *nix? I canjust imagine the chaos that registering a *.localdomain TLD will cause.
.localhost is already reserved through RFC 2606, so this should not be a problem. To quote : The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.
Methinks it is time to update RFC2606 to reflect common practices beforethe new ICANN policies take effect.
If you can think of a list, it probably would... Marshall
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- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs, (continued)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Ian Mason (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Joe Abley (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Tony Finch (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Marshall Eubanks (Jun 26)
- RE: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Tomas L. Byrnes (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jon Kibler (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Marshall Eubanks (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jon Kibler (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Marshall Eubanks (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Lou Katz (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Marshall Eubanks (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Simon Waters (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Tony Finch (Jun 27)
- RE: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Tomas L. Byrnes (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Phil Regnauld (Jun 28)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 27)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Zaid Ali (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs David Conrad (Jun 26)