[105554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Kibler)
Fri Jun 27 06:44:20 2008
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:44:00 -0400
From: Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler@aset.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C82C988-8F56-4CF4-A8D5-7A333E7E1812@multicasttech.com>
Reply-To: Jon.Kibler@aset.com
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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.
Methinks it is time to update RFC2606 to reflect common practices before
the new ICANN policies take effect.
Jon
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