On 2021-12-14 at 13:10:36 UTC-0500 (Tue, 14 Dec 2021 13:10:36 -0500)
Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com>
is rumored to have said:
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repealed.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.
My point was really about the pseudo-registry/registrar use, not the
2-character aspect of those 2 particular names.
For example, I could *CLAIM* to be an independent customer of whoever
runs scconsult.com as a registry, and I just "registered"
billmail.scconsult.com with them, and therefore am completely innocent
of the bad behavior by some evil guy who "registered"
spammer.scconsult.com. All that bozo who runs scconsult.com does is hand
out subdomains without oversight, because ICANN has no jurisdiction over
non-parties to their association.
The legitimacy of eu.org and uk.com *as registries* is unmoored to ICANN
policy, just as scconsult.com would be if I ran it as a
registry+registrar. I don't follow ICANN activities closely but I
believe that they explicitly allow registrars and registries to judge a
domain to be used abusively and rescind the registration. Back in the
distant past, some would do so.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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