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Re: Bare TLD resolutions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Wed Sep 17 13:43:29 2014

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:40:24 -0700
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <13054977.2006.1410975369686.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
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On 9/17/14 10:36 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:

> A records being returned for bare TLDs*is*  formally banned?
>
> (Oh: specifically for cctlds.  Got it.)

No, ICANN doesn't ban anything for the ccTLDs.

> Citation?

The gTLD registry contracts describe the fact that they cannot add A 
records at the zone apex.


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