I’d add that ICANN has no mechanism for specifying how a top level
domain should be handled other than the simple delegation/non-delegation
binary (it can specify how certain sub-domains should be handled as a
condition of delegation). It cannot, as the .onion proposal does,
specify that the domain be handled differently by resolvers without
delegation.
That's not what the draft says. It says that resolvers MUST (2026
language) return NXDOMAIN for all .onion queries.
Using Tor is entirely optional, and is handled by applications, not the
DNS. It encourages (SHOULD) applications that don't support Tor to fail
.onion lookups before passing them to the DNS, but that's a minor
optimization.
R's,
John
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