Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 06/19/2011 07:08 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > From: David Conrad<drc () virtualized org>
> > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:04:09 -1000
> >
> > On Jun 19, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
> >
> >      
> > > i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names,
> > > universally.
> > >        
> > How?
> >      
> that's a good question.  marka mentioned writing an RFC, but i expect
> that ICANN could also have an impact on this by having applicants sign
> something that says "i know that my single-label top level domain name
> will not be directly usable the way normal domain names are and i intend
> to use it only to register subdomain names which will work normally."
>    

Isn't this problem self regulating? If sufficient things break
with a single label, people will stop making themselves
effectively unreachable, right?

Mike