Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jun 19, 2011, at 7:22 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:

> 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

I suspect that most of the entities in question will put both in to the DNS
and the issues will persist.

Owen