Hi, On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 12:35:17PM -0500, Bill Cole wrote:
On the other hand, anyone who wants to do so can buy a 2nd-level domain in a gTLD and run a pseudo-registry like uk.com or eu.org for subdomains.
Not any more in new TLDs. There's an ICANN consensus policy that is designed to prevent this. It was put in place for the 2001-round expansion (.info, .biz) of the root and has not, AFAIK, ever been repealed. There had to be a special provision permitted to allow "2-character IDNs" (which aren't 2 characters in the DNS, since they all start xn--), in fact. But most of the original TLDs already had all the 2-character combinations sold by the time the new restriction went into place, so the rules don't hold for those. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com
