Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

Dear Lou;

On Jun 27, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Lou Katz wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:13:10PM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > > > Marshall
> > >
> > >
> > > Thinking about it a little more, what about the common use of
> > > 'localhost.localdomain' for 127.0.0.1 in most versions of *nix? I  
> > > can
> > > just 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
> > > before
> > > the new ICANN policies take effect.
> >
> > If you can think of a list, it probably would...
>
> Having had the need to construct a few TLDs for internal use, I hope  
> that some
> new RFC will address this and reserve some  
> (e.g. .internal, .internal# (where # is
> any fully numeric string), .local)? I really don't care what they  
> are called,
> but I do need more than one.

There are 4 already,
.test .example .invalid .localhost

. I suspect that .local should also be reserved, which would make 5.

It seems that .internal# should just be blocked, not reserved. Before,  
the feeling was that
the best blockage was a reservation, but as I read the ICANN  
presentation, if .internal
was reserved, .internal# could be blocked too without an explicit  
reservation.

Regards
Marshall


> > Marshall
> >
> > > Jon
>
> <snip>
>
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