Well - like I said below - it is not recommended to simply use http://tld/ - however there are a few IANA TLDs that in fact are setup with A records associated with TLDs. Just did a test out of curiosity and found the following ccTLDs with A records.
AC. 86400 IN A 193.223.78.210 AF. 86400 IN A 65.219.4.91 AI. 14400 IN A 209.59.119.34 BI. 38400 IN A 196.2.8.205 CM. 3600 IN A 195.24.192.17 DK. 86400 IN A 193.163.102.23 HK. 604800 IN A 203.119.2.28 IO. 604800 IN A 193.223.78.212 PH. 86400 IN A 203.119.4.7 PN. 43200 IN A 80.68.93.100 PW. 600 IN A 203.199.114.33 SH. 86400 IN A 64.251.31.234 TM. 86400 IN A 193.223.78.213 UZ. 14400 IN A 195.158.1.25 WS. 21600 IN A 63.101.245.10 Cheers Joe Baptista On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Joe Baptista <bapti...@publicroot.org>wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Mark Andrews <mark_andr...@isc.org>wrote: > >> >> >> http://tld and u...@tld can *never* work *reliably* as they >> would cause namespace clashes. Single label represent local >> names not global names. > > > Thats incorrect. It does work but is not recommended because it does not > always work depending on the application. If the application relies solely > on gethostbyname then it will probably work - but some applications do a bit > more checking of the domain name and not all applications will allow it. > > cheers > joe baptista > > -- > Joe Baptista > www.publicroot.org > PublicRoot Consortium > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The future of the Internet is Open, Transparent, Inclusive, Representative > & Accountable to the Internet community @large. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Office: +1 (360) 526-6077 (extension 052) > Fax: +1 (509) 479-0084 > > -- Joe Baptista www.publicroot.org PublicRoot Consortium ---------------------------------------------------------------- The future of the Internet is Open, Transparent, Inclusive, Representative & Accountable to the Internet community @large. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Office: +1 (360) 526-6077 (extension 052) Fax: +1 (509) 479-0084
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