The wildcard 127.0.53.53 and such are clever, but none of the domains
that have been delegated had significant collision issues to start
with so it's hard to argue they've been effective.
...
... and just for the record, much much more could have been determined
(and users better warned / informed) if the address handed out was a
server which displayed an error / links to more information[0],
Gee, I'd think you of all people would be aware that there's more to the
Internet than the web. A wildcard with a live IP in those domains would
be a terrible idea for the same reason that *.com was.
or if the name-servers serving the wildcard were required to collect and
publish information and statistics. This would have allowed analysis of
the effectiveness of the mitigations, etc.
That, on the other hand, would be a good idea. Since all of the new TLDs
use the same dozen back ends, I wonder if any of the back ends could be
persuaded to release anonymized data.
R's,
John
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