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Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Feb 22 22:03:26 2013

In-Reply-To: <20130222230805.GA5475@gsp.org>
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:02:53 -0500
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>,nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Yrs, but he wanted the retronym for domain names not containing one, not the dot.

Absolute and relative domain  names, as Joe and 1035 said.

Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 05:19:03PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
>> It's a convention common enough and useful enough that I can see why
>> people would want a handy term for it.
>
>How about "stopdot"?  Seems to cover the function and the form.
>
>---rsk

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