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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld () catpipe net>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:12:52 +0200
Matthew Petach (mpetach) writes:
That was amusing. Firefox very handily took me to a search results page listing results for the word "museum", none of which was the actual page in question.
... and Safari took me to www.museum.com.
Thanks for all the pointers! I guess I won't be suggesting the use of such TLDs as gmail and ymail as a way to shorten up email addresses for people, given the inconsistent behaviour of client resolvers. ^_^;
This is not only about client resolvers, it's equally about the individual applications and their choice of how to handle a single-label domain name, or just domain names (FQDN or not) in particular. Most often you'll see that the regular expressions used to parse what is considered to be a valid domain -- or even the policy that decides whether a given name has a special meaning or not -- will vary wildly. Most of them are wrong, or don't do the expected thing.
Current thread:
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs, (continued)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Phil Regnauld (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Stephane Bortzmeyer (Jun 29)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Matthew Petach (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Phil Regnauld (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs David Conrad (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Phil Regnauld (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs David Conrad (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Marshall Eubanks (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs John Levine (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Matthew Petach (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Phil Regnauld (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs John Levine (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Simon Waters (Jun 30)
- RE: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Frank Bulk (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jean-François Mezei (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Christopher Morrow (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Tony Finch (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 30)
- Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs Christopher Morrow (Jun 30)