On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:09 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>>>> http://apple/ is going to break a bunch of shit.
>>>
>>> All fully qualified domain names have a trailing dot so that you know
>>> where the root is. At least as parsed internally by your resolver...
>>
>> Sure. And Apple's gonna make sure they put that trailing dot in their
>> ads and links and stuff... and their users will, without fail, remember
>> to type it. :-)
>
> I suspect the folks who spend $185K + yearly fees will be able to afford
> engineering staff that will point out that a naked TLD is unlikely to
> work for the great unwashed masses. And if they don't, they'll get exactly
> what they deserve.
>
That won't stop them from building zone files that look like this:
@ IN SOA ...
NS ...
...
A ...
AAAA ...
www A ...
AAAA ...
Sure, they'll advertise www.apple, but, you better believe that
they'll take whatever lands at http://apple and you can certainly
count on the fact that any mal-actors that get control of one of
these TLDs (whether they paid the $185k or not) will take full
advantage of the situation and its security risks.
> What I suspect you'll more likely see will be macbook.apple or
> japan.cisco or copyright-enforcement.universal.
>
Sure, you'll see all of that, TOO. They're not mutually exclusive.
> Maybe.
>
Almost certainly.
Owen
