Hello anyone and thanks for the clarifications!
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Craig Skinner wrote:
Here's the full public domain name root list (which changes):
http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db
There is an inflation of TLD Names. I hope that registering a
domain name become cheaper due to this abundance, but my experience
is the opposite.
My names without dots in /etc/hosts are to be considered as names
immediately under the root in the DNS tree, as also "localhost"
(localhost.). The names inflation has a bad effect on my praxis.
Is/was it not a common praxis? Some years ago we did not expect TLDs
with more than 3 letters, every other name was to be expected to be
local.
From the reserved names in rfc2606, "test" seems to be the best, it
has four letters, the others 7 and 8. I wonder how commercial became
this, that they did not conseder that normal users want short names,
that they sold "dev." to google.
Rodrigo.
