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Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called "Search"..?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Apr 12 20:43:04 2013
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:42:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oliver Garraux" <oliver@g.garraux.net>
> Subject: Re: Google Wants to Create a Dotless Domain Called "Search"..?
> The whole custom TLD thing is just a truly awful, awful idea.
Whether gTLD expansion is a good or bad idea (protip: good) is orthogonal
to whether anyone who has such a gTLD should be permitted to put A records
in the DNS for the TLD proper (protip: bad, and they'd find
out the hard way, since most things would break).
Cheers,
-- jra
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