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Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing


From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:36:54 -0800

DNS is case-insensitive when you are talking about 7-bit ASCII

< pedantry >

dns itself is purely eight bit transparent.  one can even have a dot as
a non-separator.  p.r.c could be a tld.  it's strictly length/value.

of course, everyone and their dog has placed restrictions on it for this
use or that.

randy


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