It has been suggested that a possible consequence of the new gTLD programme may be the deprecation of single label "local" hostnames and DNS search suffixes.
There may be no practical way to differentiate a single label hostname from a gTLD with an A (or AAAA) record at its apex. For example, which should have priority if Canon get ".canon" but I also want a printer named that on my LAN? I don't personally think that "DNS existence tests" will be sufficient - but ensuring that local nodes have their own private namespace (i.e. ".local") would avoid that. Ray Sent from my iPhone On 9 Sep 2011, at 19:55, "Fred Baker" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I believe that ".local" is in common use. Simply using names - are you aware of the proposal in ICANN for simply using names in the root zone? <http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm> http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm
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