nanog mailing list archives
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 20 Jun 2011 22:36:18 -0000
do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists?Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them.
You're in good company. It's hard to find a modern mail system that allows abbreviated domain names in addresses. I just checked the mail at AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail, and the one at Tucows which is used by a lot of large corporate mail systems, and none of them will let you send a message to an address like foo@bar. Note that Yahoo and Hotmail each handle mail for many large ISPs. There's a lot of advice that made sense in 1989 which is irrelevant now. Programming around mail systems that rewrite partially qualified addresses is in that category. It may not be possible for people to send mail to addresses like n@ai, but that's a very different problem from it going to the wrong place. R's, John
Current thread:
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs, (continued)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Jaap Akkerhuis (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Mark Andrews (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs John Levine (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Mark Andrews (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Joel Maslak (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 21)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Kyle Creyts (Jun 21)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs David Conrad (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Mark Andrews (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs David Conrad (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs John Levine (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Mark Andrews (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Jay Ashworth (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Mark Andrews (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Jaap Akkerhuis (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Mark Andrews (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Jay Ashworth (Jun 19)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Matthew Palmer (Jun 19)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Robert E. Seastrom (Jun 20)
- Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Owen DeLong (Jun 19)
- The Internet Is An Engineering Construct (was: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs) Jay Ashworth (Jun 19)