Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > > http://apple/ is going to break a bunch of shit.
> >
> > All fully qualified domain names have a trailing dot so that you know
> > where the root is. At least as parsed internally by your resolver...
>
> Sure.  And Apple's gonna make sure they put that trailing dot in their
> ads and links and stuff... and their users will, without fail, remember
> to type it.  :-) 

I suspect the folks who spend $185K + yearly fees will be able to afford 
engineering staff that will point out that a naked TLD is unlikely to
work for the great unwashed masses.  And if they don't, they'll get exactly
what they deserve.

What I suspect you'll more likely see will be macbook.apple or 
japan.cisco or copyright-enforcement.universal.

Maybe.

Regards,
-drc