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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:45:55PM -0700, Roger Marquis <[email protected]> wrote a message of 31 lines which said: > The difference between '[a-z0-9\-\.]*\.[a-z]{2-5}' If this is a regexp for the current root zone, it is wrong... (".museum" and the test IDNs, whose punycode encoding contains digits and hyphens.) > Aside from the IP issues it effectively precludes anyone from > defining a hostname that cannot also be someone else's domain > name. Interesting requirment but one which was never written down, I'm afraid. You certainly cannot expect ICANN to comply with every requirment that someone at Nanog may imagine every day. > Will you still think that when someone buys the right to the .nic > tld and starts harvesting your queries and query related traffic? Be my guest. The DNS is a tree and the existence of nic.de or nic.com was never a problem. Why should ".nic" be different?
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