[105735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Mon Jun 30 12:24:57 2008
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:24:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
In-Reply-To: <63ac96a50806300905s168c3da9m6d636067bafe3c45@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>> In the usual way. Try typing this into your browser's address bar:
>>
>> http://museum/
>
> That was amusing. Firefox very handily took me to a search
> results page listing results for the word "museum", none of
> which was the actual page in question.
Gee, it works fine for me in Firefox 2.0.0.14. I'd suggest filing a bug
report against your OS vendor to fix their resolver library.
> Thanks for all the pointers! I guess I won't be suggesting the
> use of such TLDs as gmail and ymail as a way to shorten up
> email addresses for people, given the inconsistent behaviour
> of client resolvers. ^_^;
Too bad. You might try writing the guy whose address is n@ai (yes, his
name is Ian) and see what his experience has been.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
