ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

Jon Kibler Jon.Kibler at aset.com
Fri Jun 27 09:20:48 UTC 2008


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Jeff Shultz wrote:
> Owen DeLong wrote:
>  
> On that note, it will be very interesting to see who manages to register
> the *.sucks TLD, and what they do with it.
> 


Well, I guess this shoots in the foot Microsoft's name server best
practices of setting up your AD domain as foo.LOCAL, using the logic
that .LOCAL is safe because it cannot be resolved by the root name servers.

Who wants to be the first to try to register *.local?

Jon
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