unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

Mon Jun 20 12:40:08 UTC 2011

* Adam Atkinson:

> It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown
> http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s.
>
> Must I be recalling incorrectly?

It must have been before 1996.  Windows environments cannot resolve
A/AAAA records for single-label domain names.

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