Bare TLD resolutions

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Sep 17 17:54:15 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Conrad" <drc at virtualized.org>

> > A records being returned for bare TLDs *is* formally banned?
> >
> > (Oh: specifically for cctlds. Got it.)
> 
> To be clear, generic TLDs (gTLDs) can’t have bare (dotless) TLDs (or
> wildcards). ICANN has no mechanism by which policy can be imposed on
> ccTLDs.

Yeah; sorry; quoted it backwards.

> > Citation?
> 
> https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2013-08-30-en

Thanks, Dave.

Cheers,
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