[142160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Jun 19 19:36:39 2011
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:36:28 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4DFE47F3.2040900@mistral.co.uk> (Adam Atkinson's message of "Sun,
19 Jun 2011 20:03:15 +0100")
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Adam Atkinson <ghira@mistral.co.uk> writes:
> It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk,
> the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s.
>
> Must I be recalling incorrectly?
no you need not must be. it would work as long as no dk.this or dk.that
would be found first in a search list containing 'this' and 'that', where
the default search list is normally the parent domain name of your own
hostname (so for me on six.vix.com the search list would be vix.com and
so as long as dk.vix.com did not exist then http://dk/ would reach "dk.")
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Paul Vixie
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