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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
From: Simon Waters <simonw () zynet net>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:46:04 +0100
On Friday 27 June 2008 17:13:10 Marshall Eubanks wrote:
.localhost is already reserved through RFC 2606, so this should not be a problem.
.localdomain shouldn't cause a problem, since most Unix systems that use it put it in the name resolution before the DNS is invoked (i.e. /etc/hosts). ICANN have a technical review step in the procedure, which hopefully would flag a request for ".localdomain", I don't think we want to try to enumerate possible brokenness. Probably appropriate for the review step is to ask the root name server operators if there is substantive traffic for a proposed TLD, as if there is it may reveal a problem. That said substantive traffic for a proposed domain need not of itself block a request, ICANN are tasked with maintaining the stability of the net, not the stability of every broken piece of software on the net. Does anyone has a specific operational concerns - otherwise I think this topic should probably be laid to rest on this list.
Current thread:
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs, (continued)
- 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)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jeroen Massar (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs R. Irving (Jun 26)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jeroen Massar (Jun 27)