Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?

Mon Oct 6 10:00:34 UTC 2003

At 23:40 05/10/2003, Niels Bakker wrote:

> > do arbitrary changes to them. Marking "com" and "net" as delegation-only
> > is not harming anything. (At least until ICANN changes its mind.)
>
>According to this mail:
>http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg00532.html
>... apparently it breaks IDN resolution.  Does anybody have the definite
>word on that?

It would seem to do so, yes - removal of the wildcard would also imply that 
Verisign's IDN stopgap (between applications which use the xn-- encoding 
and applications which do 8-bit dns) will now break.

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