Single label names are local in scope. Attempting to use
them in a global context does not work. As the names in
. get more interesting the probability of collisions with
existing names goes up. Not many people choose two letter
labels for the least significant parts of their host names
--On Friday, 04 July, 2008 10:49 -0700 Bernard Aboba
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Single label names are local in scope. Attempting to use
them in a global context does not work. As the names in
. get more interesting the probability of collisions with
existing names goes up. Not many
Not really. ICANN isn't selling single-label domains. They
are selling (and I believe selling is probably now the correct
term) plain, ordinary, TLD delegations. If I get one of those
and populate the TLD zone only with delegation records, there
are no problems with what ICANN has done at
So the problem isn't whether some string not listed in 2606
can be allocated, it is how it is used after it is allocated.
And _that_ situation has a lot more to do about buyer beware
and understanding of conflicting expectations about use than it
does about ownership.
john
I
Bernard,
I'm going to try to respond to both your note and Mark's, using
yours as a base because it better reflects my perspective.
Before I go on, I think the three of us are in agreement about
the situation. The question is what can (or should) be done
about it.
--On Friday, 04 July, 2008
