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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

  • From: Marshall Eubanks
  • Date: Fri Jun 27 12:14:57 2008


On Jun 27, 2008, at 6:44 AM, Jon Kibler wrote:


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Marshall Eubanks wrote:

On Jun 27, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Jon Kibler wrote:


Jeff Shultz wrote:
Owen DeLong wrote:

On that note, it will be very interesting to see who manages to register
the *.sucks TLD, and what they do with it.




Well, I guess this shoots in the foot Microsoft's name server best
practices of setting up your AD domain as foo.LOCAL, using the logic
that .LOCAL is safe because it cannot be resolved by the root name
servers.

Who wants to be the first to try to register *.local?

They should have been following RFC 2606.

Regards
Marshall


Thinking about it a little more, what about the common use of
'localhost.localdomain' for 127.0.0.1 in most versions of *nix? I can
just imagine the chaos that registering a *.localdomain TLD will cause.



.localhost is already reserved through RFC 2606, so this should not be a problem. To quote :
The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.


Methinks it is time to update RFC2606 to reflect common practices before
the new ICANN policies take effect.



If you can think of a list, it probably would...


Marshall

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