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Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?

  • From: Joel Rowbottom
  • Date: Mon Oct 06 06:05:05 2003

At 23:40 05/10/2003, Niels Bakker wrote:

> do arbitrary changes to them. Marking "com" and "net" as delegation-only
> is not harming anything. (At least until ICANN changes its mind.)

According to this mail:
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg00532.html
... apparently it breaks IDN resolution.  Does anybody have the definite
word on that?
It would seem to do so, yes - removal of the wildcard would also imply that Verisign's IDN stopgap (between applications which use the xn-- encoding and applications which do 8-bit dns) will now break.



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