[105722] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Mon Jun 30 02:48:24 2008
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:46:59 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080629214555.482862B7C03@mx5.roble.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:45:55PM -0700,
Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> 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?
