[142267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jun 20 15:46:55 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DFEAEF6.70407@mtcc.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:40:41 -0700
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 19, 2011, at 7:22 PM, Michael Thomas wrote:
> 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
I suspect that most of the entities in question will put both in to the DNS
and the issues will persist.
Owen
