[164405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: On topic of domains
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Hills)
Thu Jul 11 11:55:24 2013
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From: Chris Hills <chaz@chaz6.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:54:49 +0100
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On 11/07/2013 15:27, Jon Mitchell wrote:
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> After .nyc thread, thought this IAB announcement may be of interest.
>
> http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/2013-2/iab-statement-dotless-domains-considered-harmful/
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> -Jon
>
Whilst I am not a fan of dotless domains, as long as one uses the fully
qualified domain name (e.g. http://ac./), there should not be any
trouble using it in any sane software. It seems that most people aren't
aware these days that a fqdn includes the trailing period (by definition).
