On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 01:32:34PM -0500,
 Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote 
 a message of 25 lines which said:

> Also, partly echoing what Joe argued, the .local case is special
> because (1) Apple implemented and released it first and then
> documented;

Exactly the same situation with .onion. The Tor people implemented it
a long time ago and released it. 

> so I'm actually not sure that what's needed here is the DNS at all. 

Indeed, .onion, .zkey and .gnu do not use the DNS at all. They need
domain names but not the DNS. Hence the proposal to register them as
special domain names.

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