[105728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Jun 30 08:28:33 2008
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
In-Reply-To: <63ac96a50806300036u5c1a9bbdq4efb8e4879650434@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:28:20 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jun 30, 2008, at 12:36 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> If my company pays for and registers a new TLD, let's
> call it "smtp" for grins, and I create an A record for "smtp."
> in my top level zone file, how will users outside my company
> resolve and reach that address?
I suspect the assumption is that no one will actually do this since it
would have operational issues (as you note) and it would be
challenging to recover costs in the "traditional" manner (i.e.,
selling names under the TLD). If someone were to try, perhaps it
would demonstrate the quote "stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward"?
Regards,
-drc
