ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

Marshall Eubanks tme at multicasttech.com
Fri Jun 27 10:02:21 UTC 2008


On Jun 27, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Jon Kibler wrote:

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

They should have been following RFC 2606.

Regards
Marshall

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