On 02/08/2024 17:09, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:39:46AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:29:40 -0400, gene heskett wrote:ISP's dns. I suppose eventually they'll issue .den and I be forced to pick some other 3 letter name for my local domain.https://www.hostzealot.com/domains/denWeird - that TLD has not yet been delegated by IANA so I don't get how they are selling it. Perhaps I have missed something. https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db Still, your point does remain that it could be delegated at some point. There is a new set of proposals being entertained right now for new TLDs so there will be some pointless new ones soon. Gene';s reply to you misses your point so if/when it does happen that .den is delegated I'm sure he will miss the point again anyway.
Back before IANA's recent explosion in TLDs - when all you really had was .com, .org, .net and a bunch of country-specific TLDs - there was a healthy business in alternative DNS roots (altroots). Companies such as AlterNIC and OpenNICran DNS servers which - in addition to resolving .com, .org etc - also resolved such TLDs as .geek or .null (for example there used to be a popular Nethack tournament hosted at nethack.dev.null). The point is that these TLDs were "opt-in". They weren't under the control of IANA but IANA were supposedly aware of them. There was a certain amount of controversy when IANA created .biz because that, uniquely, masked a TLD already in use. This lead to the possibility that two different hosts could resolve example.biz to different IP addresses.
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