[142097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Jun 17 22:10:38 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <22037285.658.1308362447241.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:09:40 -1000
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>> http://apple/ is going to break a bunch of shit.
>>
>> All fully qualified domain names have a trailing dot so that you know
>> where the root is. At least as parsed internally by your resolver...
>
> Sure. And Apple's gonna make sure they put that trailing dot in their
> ads and links and stuff... and their users will, without fail, remember
> to type it. :-)
I suspect the folks who spend $185K + yearly fees will be able to afford
engineering staff that will point out that a naked TLD is unlikely to
work for the great unwashed masses. And if they don't, they'll get exactly
what they deserve.
What I suspect you'll more likely see will be macbook.apple or
japan.cisco or copyright-enforcement.universal.
Maybe.
Regards,
-drc
