On Jun 19, 2011, at 7:22 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > On 06/19/2011 07:08 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: >>> From: David Conrad<d...@virtualized.org> >>> Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:04:09 -1000 >>> >>> On Jun 19, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: >>> >>> >>>> i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names, >>>> universally. >>>> >>> How? >>> >> that's a good question. marka mentioned writing an RFC, but i expect >> that ICANN could also have an impact on this by having applicants sign >> something that says "i know that my single-label top level domain name >> will not be directly usable the way normal domain names are and i intend >> to use it only to register subdomain names which will work normally." >> > > Isn't this problem self regulating? If sufficient things break > with a single label, people will stop making themselves > effectively unreachable, right? > > Mike
I suspect that most of the entities in question will put both in to the DNS and the issues will persist. Owen
