[142199] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Mon Jun 20 00:50:13 2011
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:49:26 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20110620034629.C304E10EBF12@drugs.dv.isc.org>
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> >
> > I would guess that most of these are going to be purchased simply to
> > prevent someone else from getting them
>=20
> I would agree with this part.
>=20
> > and that most of them will never
> > actually be placed into production.
>=20
> But not with this part.
Well, I said "most", some will likely be placed into use, but I am
willing to wager that most of them will not be actively promoted. So
mcdonalds. might be set up to point to the same thing as mcdonalds.com
but I doubt http://McDonalds will actually be promoted because of the
potential breakage. Image what happens in a shop that has a farm of
servers named with a fast food theme and they have a
mcdonalds.example.com, arbys.example.com, burgerking.example.com, etc.
So a user in that domain trying to get to http://mcdonalds ends up going
to mcdonalds.example.com
A company deploying this would end up with a flood of complaints and the
more "famous" the company is, the more likely they are to have problems.
