[142183] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Sun Jun 19 22:24:02 2011
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:22:46 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <30657.1308535698@nsa.vix.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 06/19/2011 07:08 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
>> From: David Conrad<drc@virtualized.org>
>> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:04:09 -1000
>>
>> On Jun 19, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
>>
>>
>>> i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names,
>>> universally.
>>>
>> How?
>>
> that's a good question. marka mentioned writing an RFC, but i expect
> that ICANN could also have an impact on this by having applicants sign
> something that says "i know that my single-label top level domain name
> will not be directly usable the way normal domain names are and i intend
> to use it only to register subdomain names which will work normally."
>
Isn't this problem self regulating? If sufficient things break
with a single label, people will stop making themselves
effectively unreachable, right?
Mike
