TLDs and file extensions (Re: DNS and potential energy)

Tue Jul 1 16:53:53 UTC 2008

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, David Conrad wrote:
>
> I could maybe see a problem with ".LOCAL" due to mdns or llmnr or ".1"
> due to the risk of someone registering "127.0.0.1"

RFC 1123 section 2.1 says TLDs can't be purely numeric.

Tony.
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