[174513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Sep 17 13:54:23 2014
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:54:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Conrad" <drc@virtualized.org>
> > A records being returned for bare TLDs *is* formally banned?
> >
> > (Oh: specifically for cctlds. Got it.)
>=20
> To be clear, generic TLDs (gTLDs) can=E2=80=99t have bare (dotless) TLDs =
(or
> wildcards). ICANN has no mechanism by which policy can be imposed on
> ccTLDs.
Yeah; sorry; quoted it backwards.
> > Citation?
>=20
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en
Thanks, Dave.
Cheers,
-- jra
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