[174511] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Wed Sep 17 13:43:29 2014
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:40:24 -0700
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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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.