-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > On Jun 27, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Jon Kibler wrote: > > Jeff Shultz wrote: >>>> Owen DeLong wrote: >>>> >>>> On that note, it will be very interesting to see who manages to register >>>> the *.sucks TLD, and what they do with it. >>>> > > > Well, I guess this shoots in the foot Microsoft's name server best > practices of setting up your AD domain as foo.LOCAL, using the logic > that .LOCAL is safe because it cannot be resolved by the root name > servers. > > Who wants to be the first to try to register *.local? > >> They should have been following RFC 2606. > >> Regards >> Marshall
Thinking about it a little more, what about the common use of 'localhost.localdomain' for 127.0.0.1 in most versions of *nix? I can just imagine the chaos that registering a *.localdomain TLD will cause. Methinks it is time to update RFC2606 to reflect common practices before the new ICANN policies take effect. Jon - -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer Advanced Systems Engineering Technology, Inc. Charleston, SC USA o: 843-849-8214 c: 843-224-2494 s: 843-564-4224 My PGP Fingerprint is: BAA2 1F2C 5543 5D25 4636 A392 515C 5045 CF39 4253 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhkxHAACgkQUVxQRc85QlPfmgCgiIUv7KYOz/U2vdk2DyA04D/O 8Q4An2wK8vilUCJne06qIn/67erB2rkt =ih+F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
