[174619] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bare TLD resolutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sun Sep 21 10:53:44 2014
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Date: 21 Sep 2014 14:53:12 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1409190959570.3000@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
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In article <alpine.LSU.2.00.1409190959570.3000@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk> you write:
>David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
>
>> To be clear, generic TLDs (gTLDs) can’t have bare (dotless) TLDs (or wildcards).
>
>Wildcards are being used for the name collision gubbins.
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>*.prod. 3600 IN A 127.0.53.53
Yes, but only for a few months before the TLD goes live to try and
flush out prior local use of new TLDs. The rule about wildcards in
live TLDs hasn't changed.
There was a lot about this at Verisign's name collision workshop after
the London IETF.
http://namecollisions.net/program/index.html
R's,
John
