Change to .com/.net behavior

Joe Maimon jmaimon at ttec.com
Tue Sep 16 00:57:35 UTC 2003


I want my root servers back

Matt Larson wrote:

>Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net
>zones.  The wildcard record in the .net zone was activated from
>10:45AM EDT to 13:30PM EDT.  The wildcard record in the .com zone is
>being added now.  We have prepared a white paper describing VeriSign's
>wildcard implementation, which is available here:
>
>http://www.verisign.com/resources/gd/sitefinder/implementation.pdf 
>
>By way of background, over the course of last year, VeriSign has been
>engaged in various aspects of web navigation work and study.  These
>activities were prompted by analysis of the IAB's recommendations
>regarding IDN navigation and discussions within the Council of
>European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) prompted by DNS
>wildcard testing in the .biz and .us top-level domains.  Understanding
>that some registries have already implemented wildcards and that
>others may in the future, we believe that it would be helpful to have
>a set of guidelines for registries and would like to make them
>publicly available for that purpose.  Accordingly, we drafted a white
>paper describing guidelines for the use of DNS wildcards in top-level
>domain zones.  This document, which may be of interest to the NANOG
>community, is available here:
>
>http://www.verisign.com/resources/gd/sitefinder/bestpractices.pdf
>
>Matt
>--
>Matt Larson <mlarson at verisign.com>
>VeriSign Naming and Directory Services
>
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