Re: The return of the wildcard domain...

2005-09-15 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, John Levine wrote: I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself. Why should anyone care? It's just one of ten million dot-com domains. They have quite a lot of domain name customers who don't know enough to buy domain names from a real

The return of the wildcard domain...

2005-09-14 Thread Jim McBurnett
All, I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself. I thought this was of operational interest considering the effect Verisign sitefinder had. (Sorry Martin, no offence intended) So I guess the question to us all is: how will this affect our networks as a whole? Or

Re: The return of the wildcard domain...

2005-09-14 Thread John Levine
I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself. Why should anyone care? It's just one of ten million dot-com domains. So will ICANN act on this? Of course not. CentralNIC also runs the uk.com, us.com, eu.com and de.com domains. Well, OK, they run four out of ten

Re: The return of the wildcard domain...

2005-09-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 14, 2005, at 10:50 PM, John Levine wrote: I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself. Why should anyone care? It's just one of ten million dot-com domains. Perhaps the original poster is thinking of .co.uk? BTW: I have a * on a couple of my personal

Re: The return of the wildcard domain...

2005-09-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 15/09/05, Jim McBurnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself. uk.com is just another consumer ISP, it is not a second level TLD like co.uk is. So I guess the question to us all is: how will this affect our networks as a