ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

Sun Jun 29 22:06:03 UTC 2008

>> If you test that the TLD exists... it will still work.

> Only if A) you are always online with B) reliable access to the
> tld's nameserver/s, and C) can deal with the latency.  In practice
> this is often not the case.

Even under the most wildly optimistic scenarios, it's hard to imagine
new TLDs being added more than once a month, and I presume that
everyone here already knows how easy it is to get copies of the root
zone.  The reasonable way to validate TLDs is to fetch a copy of the
zone every couple of weeks and cache it.

By the way, to be sure we're all on roughly the same page, here's a
quiz.  How many names are there in the root zone right now?

a) 11
b) 97
c) 153
d) 280
e) 974

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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