In article <alpine.lsu.2.00.1409190959570.3...@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk> you write: >David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> wrote: > >> To be clear, generic TLDs (gTLDs) can’t have bare (dotless) TLDs (or >> wildcards). > >Wildcards are being used for the name collision gubbins.
>;; ANSWER SECTION: >*.prod. 3600 IN A 127.0.53.53 Yes, but only for a few months before the TLD goes live to try and flush out prior local use of new TLDs. The rule about wildcards in live TLDs hasn't changed. There was a lot about this at Verisign's name collision workshop after the London IETF. http://namecollisions.net/program/index.html R's, John