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Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Mon Jun 30 13:38:22 2008

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:36:06 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20080629195709.GA1569@sources.org>
Cc: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> I am very curious of what tests a "security-aware programmer" can do,
> based on the domain name, which will not be possible tomorrow, should
> ICANN allow a few more TLDs.

It makes the "public suffix list" project harder, but so long as the list
of TLDs changes reasonably slowly, it shouldn't become impossible.
http://publicsuffix.org/

Tony.
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