Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
Well I just asked the question during the Getting Ready panel at the ICANN 41 meeting. Q: How much on top of the $185K is required for a new gTLD Answers: It is hard to say, too many variables, biz plan dependencies, if the string will be contended it can go to a more complex/costly process,

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread brunner
Well I just asked the question during the Getting Ready panel at the ICANN 41 meeting. keep in mind that the venues for asking precise questions for the purpose of obtaining accurate answers of record are tdg-legal, or the saturday gnso gtld hours (the kurt show). Q: How much on top of the

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
keep in mind that the venues for asking precise questions for the purpose of obtaining accurate answers of record are tdg-legal, or the saturday gnso gtld hours (the kurt show). Kurt Show that's a good one. I was not expecting any elaborated response, just see if anybody on that panel had a

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread brunner
Lets say I want to apply for .WINE with commercial purposes, then what is a ballpark figure for the funds/investment required ? My guess, it is way way above the $185K assuming no defect in the application, necessitiating a second bite at the apple, at cost (extended eval), and no objections

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread John Levine
Lets say I want to apply for .WINE with commercial purposes, then what is a ballpark figure for the funds/investment required ? I wouldn't try it with less than a million bucks in hand. Beyond the ICANN application nonsense, you'd also want to budget something for running and promoting it for

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread Jorge Amodio
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Lets say I want to apply for .WINE with commercial purposes, then what is a ballpark figure for the funds/investment required ? I wouldn't try it with less than a million bucks in hand.  Beyond the ICANN application nonsense,

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread brunner
My perception is that if you don't have access to ~$2M for that kind of gTLD don't even waste your time. you may want to consult with a practitioner in the jurisdiction of your choice who does business organization and investor equity structures, as the cost to acquire a right to contract for a

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread Tony Finch
On 21 Jun 2011, at 00:29, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: I will repeat my assertion. There is no such thing as glue records for the nameservers at the top of the zone within the zone itself be they in-baliwick or not. Glue records live in the parent zone and are there to avoid the catch

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread Ray Soucy
I was talking about public perception and the ability to change it through marketing; not any actual security. It's like the difference between .com and .biz, people don't understand when something isn't a .com and don't trust it. When I say people I'm talking about the average non-technical

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:39:00 MDT, Joel Maslak said: I wonder what sort of money .wpad would be worth... I was thinking .gbmh myself... pgpRDYInukJWY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread Kyle Creyts
Or .inc? On Jun 21, 2011 10:57 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:39:00 MDT, Joel Maslak said: I wonder what sort of money .wpad would be worth... I was thinking .gbmh myself...

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread Jorge Amodio
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: I was talking about public perception and the ability to change it through marketing; not any actual security. It's like the difference between .com and .biz, people don't understand when something isn't a .com and don't trust

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread brunner
I was talking about public perception and the ability to change it through marketing; not any actual security. It's like the difference between .com and .biz, people don't understand when something isn't a .com and don't trust it. When I say people I'm talking about the average

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
(Mark:) Which just means we need to write yet another RFC saying that resolvers shouldn't lookup simple host names in the DNS. Simple host names should be qualified against a search list. I don't see the problem. I'm happily running with a empty search list for the last

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4dfedb8b.5080...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: On 06/19/2011 19:31, Paul Vixie wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:22:46 -0700 From: Michael Thomasm...@mtcc.com that's a good question. marka mentioned writing an RFC, but i expect that ICANN could also have an impact on

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:13 PM, David Conrad wrote: On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I really don't think that namespace issues are part of the role for the ASO AC. Why do you think there is an ASO? This is clearly a problem for ICANN's disaster-ridden domain-name side, and

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 201106200739.p5k7dxhj071...@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl, Jaap Akkerhuis wr ites: (Mark:) Which just means we need to write yet another RFC saying that resolvers shouldn't lookup simple host names in the DNS. Simple host names should be qualified against a search

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Which is your choice. Lots of others want search lists. I've seen requests for 20+ elements. So they get what they ask for: Ambiguity in resolving the name space. jaap

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 201106200951.p5k9pmsw051...@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl, Jaap Akkerhuis wr ites: Which is your choice. Lots of others want search lists. I've seen requests for 20+ elements. So they get what they ask for: Ambiguity in resolving the name space. jaap There is no

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Simple hostnames as, global identifiers, were supposed to cease to work in 1984. Can you point out where that is stated? jaap

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 201106201034.p5kayz2e008...@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl, Jaap Akkerhuis wr ites: Simple hostnames as, global identifiers, were supposed to cease to work in 1984. Can you point out where that is stated? jaap RFC 897. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Randy Bush ra...@psg.com writes: what's new? how about the operational technical effects, like data from modeling various resolvers' responses to a large root zone? I think the proper model is popular TLDs, perhaps the traditional gTLDs. As any (even former) decent sized TLD operator can

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adam Atkinson: It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. Must I be recalling incorrectly? It must have been before 1996. Windows environments cannot resolve A/ records for single-label domain names. --

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Matthew Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org writes: And it only gets better from there... how many places have various cutesy naming schemes that might include one or more trademarks (or whatever) that someone might want as a TLD? As it happens, I have a set of routers that are named { craftsman,

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Adam Atkinson
Florian Weimer wrote: It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. Must I be recalling incorrectly? It must have been before 1996. Windows environments cannot resolve A/ records for single-label domain

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 20, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: So they get what they ask for: Ambiguity in resolving the name space. There is no ambiguity if tld operators don't unilaterally add address records causing simple hostnames to resolve. EDU.COM. Regards, -drc

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Joly MacFie
Another avenue could be At-Large. The North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO) - uniquely amongst the RALO's - accepts individual members. http://naralo.org j On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: Well, yes, ICANN could have contracted

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Tony Finch
On 18 Jun 2011, at 09:22, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: In . lives a pointer to apple. consisting of one or more NS records and possibly some A/ glue for those nameservers if they are within apple. Don't forget the DS records containing the hash of Apple's DNSSEC KSK. Tony. --

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Ray Soucy
Technical issues aside (and there are many...) How long before we see marketing campaigns urging people to only trust .band and that .com et. al. are less secure. With a $185,000 application fee this tends to really kill small businesses and conditions the public to favor ecommerce with the

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Robert Bonomi
From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi@nanog.org Mon Jun 20 00:15:32 2011 To: David Conrad d...@virtualized.org From: Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org Subject: Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:14:49 +1000 Cc: NANOG list nanog@nanog.org

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Ray Soucy
Now that the cat is out of the bag, maybe we should look at trying to get people to make use of FQDN's more. I just added a rewrite to my person site to give it a try, and threw a quick note up about it: http://soucy.org./whydot.php So far, it looks like every browser correctly respects the use

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Tony Finch
On 20 Jun 2011, at 02:24, Paul Vixie vi...@isc.org wrote: furthermore, the internet has more in it than just the web, and i know that foo@sony. will not have its RHS (sony.) treated as a hierarchical name. Trailing dots are not permitted on mail domains. There has been an ongoing argument

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Tony Finch d...@dotat.at Trailing dots are not permitted on mail domains. I couldn't believe that, so I went and checked 5322. Tony's right: there is no way to write an email address which is deterministic, unless mail servers ignore the DNS search path.

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread John Levine
How long before we see marketing campaigns urging people to only trust .band and that .com et. al. are less secure. An interesting question. There was a group that was supposed to work on high security TLDs. I suggested that to be usefully high security, the registry should make site visits to

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 20, 2011, at 2:35 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com writes: what's new? how about the operational technical effects, like data from modeling various resolvers' responses to a large root zone? Yep. That is an area that has been identified as needing additional

RE: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread George Bonser
With a $185,000 application fee this tends to really kill small businesses and conditions the public to favor ecommerce with the giants, not to mention a nice revenue boost for ICANN. Would love to hear the dirt on backroom conversations that led to this decision... Hopefully there will

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread John Levine
Simple hostnames as, global identifiers, were supposed to cease to work in 1984. Can you point out where that is stated? jaap RFC 897. I see where it says that all of the hosts that existed in 1984 were supposed to change their names to something with at least two

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread brunner
ray, ... only trust .band and that .com et. al. are less secure. secure is not a well-defined term. as the .com registry access model accepts credit card fraud risk, a hypothetical registry, say .giro, with wholesale registration at the same dollar price point but an access mechanism accepting

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Tony Finch
On 20 Jun 2011, at 08:43, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: There is also no such thing as in-bailiwick glue for the TLD’s DNS servers. The root zone contains glue for TLDs. No TLD zone contains glue for TLDs. In-bailiwick means that the nameservers for a zone are under the apex of that

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread brunner
Another avenue could be At-Large. The North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO) - uniquely amongst the RALO's - accepts individual members. as the elected unaffiliated member representative (or umr) i suppose i should point out that (a) yes, the structural feature of individual

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 77733847-fbf7-460a-ad30-08dc42dc3...@virtualized.org, David Conrad writes: On Jun 20, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: So they get what they ask for: Ambiguity in resolving the name space. There is no ambiguity if tld operators don't unilaterally add address records

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 20, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists? Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them. If you do use them, then you are accepting a certain amount of ambiguity. Naked TLDs will increase that ambiguity and would

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20110620190517.2242.qm...@joyce.lan, John Levine writes: Simple hostnames as, global identifiers, were supposed to cease to work in 1984. Can you point out where that is stated? jaap RFC 897. I see where it says that all of the hosts that existed in

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
(Marka) See RFC 1535. Yes, a mistake was made implementing search lists. A RFC was issued to say don't do search lists this way. Which RFC? What way? It would be nice if you would say what you mean instead keep referring to things the reader has to guess. jaap

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Paul Graydon wrote: I've seen the stuff about adding a few extra TLDs, like XXX. I haven't seen any references until now of them considering doing it on a commercial basis. I don't mind new TLDs, but company ones are crazy and going to lead to a confusing and messy internet. I don't know

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread John Levine
do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists? Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them. You're in good company. It's hard to find a modern mail system that allows abbreviated domain names in addresses. I just checked the mail at AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail,

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 3da313a7-911e-4439-9082-b50844338...@dotat.at, Tony Finch writes: On 20 Jun 2011, at 08:43, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: =20 There is also no such thing as in-bailiwick glue for the TLD=E2=80=99s DN= S servers. The root zone contains glue for TLDs. No TLD zone contains glu=

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jorge Amodio
185K is just the application few, the process includes some requirements to have a given amount of dough for operations in escrow, add what you need to pay attorneys, experts , lobbyists, and setup and staff a small corporation even if you plan to outsource part of the dayt-2-day operations to a

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message b568f14d-2d30-4501-bac9-fb3b4125a...@virtualized.org, David Conrad writes: On Jun 20, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists? Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them. If you do use them, then you are

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 201106202158.p5klwaxw088...@bartok.nlnetlabs.nl, Jaap Akkerhuis wr ites: (Marka) See RFC 1535. Yes, a mistake was made implementing search lists. A RFC was issued to say don't do search lists this way. Which RFC? What way? RFC 1535. A Security

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20110620223618.2927.qm...@joyce.lan, John Levine writes: do you want to issue a RFC that bans search lists? Personally, I think search lists are a mistake and don't use them. You're in good company. It's hard to find a modern mail system that allows abbreviated domain names

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread brunner
185K is just the application few, the process includes some requirements to have a given amount of dough for operations in escrow, add what you need to pay attorneys, experts , lobbyists, and setup and staff a small corporation even if you plan to outsource part of the dayt-2-day operations

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Joel Maslak
I wonder what sort of money .wpad would be worth...

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org In message 20110620223618.2927.qm...@joyce.lan, John Levine writes: You're in good company. It's hard to find a modern mail system that allows abbreviated domain names in addresses. I just checked the mail at AOL, Yahoo,

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread Joly MacFie
And you are to be complimented on your diligence in this respect, Eric. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:21 PM, brun...@nic-naa.net wrote: this is still an area of active work, i was working on it ... yesterday and the day before, today, and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow ... --

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
David Conrad d...@virtualized.org writes: I believe the root server operators have stated (the equivalent of) that it is not their job to make editorial decisions on what the root zone contains. They distribute what the ICANN/NTIA/Verisign gestalt publishes. yes. for one example, see:

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Paul Vixie vi...@isc.org David Conrad d...@virtualized.org writes: I believe the root server operators have stated (the equivalent of) that it is not their job to make editorial decisions on what the root zone contains. They distribute what the

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Blake Dunlap
Now I'm tempted to be the guy that gets .mail On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 20:47, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: John Levine jo...@iecc.com The notion of a single-component FQDN would be quite a breakage for the basic concept of using both FQDNs and

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Randy Bush
Now I'm tempted to be the guy that gets .mail express that temptation in dollars, and well into two commas. randy

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com said: Now I'm tempted to be the guy that gets .mail express that temptation in dollars, and well into two commas. Imagine the typo-squating someone could do with .con. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 19, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com said: Now I'm tempted to be the guy that gets .mail express that temptation in dollars, and well into two commas. Imagine the typo-squating someone could do with .con. See section 2.2.1.1 (and section

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Adam Atkinson
It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. Must I be recalling incorrectly?

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Barnes
The same type that Colombia/NeuStar is doing with .co? On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com said: Now I'm tempted to be the guy that gets .mail express that temptation in dollars, and well into two commas.

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
Adam Atkinson gh...@mistral.co.uk writes: It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. Must I be recalling incorrectly? no you need not must be. it would work as long as no dk.this or dk.that would be found

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com writes: ... and that the root wouldn't be affected by the sort of things that previously-2LD now TLD operators might want to do with their monocomponent names... someone asked me privately a related question which is, if there's a .SONY and someone's web browser

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 19, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Paul Vixie vi...@isc.org David Conrad d...@virtualized.org writes: I believe the root server operators have stated (the equivalent of) that it is not their job to make editorial decisions on what the root

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jun 19, 2011, at 11:59 AM, David Conrad wrote: On Jun 19, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com said: Now I'm tempted to be the guy that gets .mail express that temptation in dollars, and well into two commas. Imagine the typo-squating someone

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message g339j59ywz@nsa.vix.com, Paul Vixie writes: Adam Atkinson gh...@mistral.co.uk writes: It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. Must I be recalling incorrectly? no you need not must be.

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Owen DeLong
Appears to now get you a redirect to https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/ For those arguing that 512+ octet replies don't occur: baikal:owen (14) ~ % dig @a.nic.dk -t any dk.2011/06/19 17:03:56 ;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode. ; DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 @a.nic.dk -t any dk. ;

The Internet Is An Engineering Construct (was: Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs)

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
Original Message - From: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com OTOH, I can easily see $COMPANY deciding that $RFC is not in their best interests and find the http://microsoft construct not at all unlikely. I realize that no responsible software vendor would ever deliberately do something

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Paul Vixie vi...@isc.org Adam Atkinson gh...@mistral.co.uk writes: It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. Must I be recalling incorrectly? no you need not must be.

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 21633.1308527...@nsa.vix.com, Paul Vixie writes: Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com writes: ... and that the root wouldn't be affected by the sort of things that previously-2LD now TLD operators might want to do with their monocomponent names... someone asked me privately a

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Paul Vixie vi...@isc.org inevitably there will be folks who register .FOOBAR and advertise it as http://foobar/; on a billboard and then get burned by all of the local foobar.this.tld and foobar.that.tld names that will get reached instead of their TLD. i

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Jeremy
DK may not be hierarchical, but DK. is. If you try to resolve DK on it's own, many (most? all?) DNS clients will attach the search string/domain name of the local system in order to make it a FQDN. The same happens when you try and resolve a non-existent domain. Such as alskdiufwfeiuwdr3948dx.com,

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message d066e1c4-cc70-4105-b2ed-a2af9b1b2...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: Appears to now get you a redirect to https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/ For those arguing that 512+ octet replies don't occur: I don't think anyone argues that 512+ octet replies don't occur. They have occured for as

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread John Levine
A surprising number of TLDs have A records. Many are hosts with web servers, a few are hosts with misconfigured or unconfigured web servers (ph. and bi.), some don't respond. No TLD has an record, confirming the theory that nobody actually cares about IPv6. ac. 193.223.78.210 ai.

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message BANLkTinAZvLc4oQEW5Nq8eTrch=x6hs...@mail.gmail.com, Jeremy writes: DK may not be hierarchical, but DK. is. If you try to resolve DK on DK. is NOT a hostname (RFC 952). It is NOT legal in a SMTP transaction. It is NOT legal in a HTTP header. it's own, many (most? all?) DNS

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:30:58 -0500 From: Jeremy jba...@gmail.com DK may not be hierarchical, but DK. is. If you try to resolve DK on it's own, many (most? all?) DNS clients will attach the search string/domain name of the local system in order to make it a FQDN. The same happens when

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Jeff Kell
On 6/19/2011 9:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names, universally. Not to mention the folks of the Redmond persuasion with their additionally ambiguous \\hostname single names. (In the absence of a configured search domain, Windows won't even

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
Vix: i think he's seen RFC 1034 :-). anyway, i don't see the difference between http://sony/ and http://sony./ The fact that the resolution of sony. is deterministic, and that of sony is location dependent? i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names, universally. In

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 19, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names, universally. How? Regards, -drc

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
From: David Conrad d...@virtualized.org Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:04:09 -1000 On Jun 19, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names, universally. How? that's a good question. marka mentioned writing an RFC, but i expect that

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 08:22:17PM -0400, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Paul Vixie vi...@isc.org inevitably there will be folks who register .FOOBAR and advertise it as http://foobar/; on a billboard and then get burned by all of the local foobar.this.tld and

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 06/19/2011 07:08 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: From: David Conradd...@virtualized.org Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:04:09 -1000 On Jun 19, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names, universally. How? that's a good

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:08:18AM +, Paul Vixie wrote: From: David Conrad d...@virtualized.org Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:04:09 -1000 On Jun 19, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: i think we have to just discourage lookups of single-token names, universally. How?

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 19, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: ICANN could also have an impact on this by having applicants sign something Well, yes, ICANN could have contracted parties (e.g., the new gTLDs) do this. A bit late to get it into the Applicant's Guidebook, but maybe something could be slipped in

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:22:46 -0700 From: Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com that's a good question. marka mentioned writing an RFC, but i expect that ICANN could also have an impact on this by having applicants sign something that says i know that my single-label top level domain name

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4dfeaef6.70...@mtcc.com, Michael Thomas writes: Isn't this problem self regulating? If sufficient things break with a single label, people will stop making themselves effectively unreachable, right? The failure rate isn't going to be high enough for natural selection to take

RE: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread George Bonser
The failure rate isn't going to be high enough for natural selection to take effect. Remember the protocols we use were designed to work back when there was only a single flat namespace. Simple hostnames will appear to work fine for 99.999% of people. It's just when you get namespace

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Adam Atkinson
Mark Andrews wrote: It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. DK should NOT be doing this. Oh, I'm not claiming it does it now. It certainly doesn't. I _think_ I was shown http://dk in about 1993 or 1994 as

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread John Levine
i think he's seen RFC 1034 :-). anyway, i don't see the difference between http://sony/ and http://sony./ Neither do any of the browsers I use, which resolve http://bi/ as well as http://dk./ just fine. Whatever problem unqualified TLD names might present to web browsers has been around for a

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Adam Atkinson
Adam Atkinson wrote: It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. DK should NOT be doing this. Oh, I'm not claiming it does it now. It certainly doesn't. I should have checked before I wrote that. The _last_

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 5a6d953473350c4b9995546afe9939ee0d633...@rwc-ex1.corp.seven.com, G eorge Bonser writes: The failure rate isn't going to be high enough for natural selection to take effect. Remember the protocols we use were designed to work back when there was only a single flat namespace.

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: John Levine jo...@iecc.com i think he's seen RFC 1034 :-). anyway, i don't see the difference between http://sony/ and http://sony./ Neither do any of the browsers I use, which resolve http://bi/ as well as http://dk./ just fine. Whatever problem

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread David Conrad
On Jun 19, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: I would guess that most of these are going to be purchased simply to prevent someone else from getting them I would agree with this part. I suspect you underestimate the desires and power of marketing folks at larger organizations. Adding

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4dfec221.90...@mistral.co.uk, Adam Atkinson writes: Adam Atkinson wrote: It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the mid 90s. DK should NOT be doing this. Oh, I'm not claiming it does it now. It

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 1bc921a3-c4cd-4fff-9ae5-49c1218d5...@virtualized.org, David Conrad writes: On Jun 19, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: I would guess that most of these are going to be purchased simply to prevent someone else from getting them I would agree with this part. I suspect you

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Adam Atkinson
Mark Andrews wrote: _Now_ I get rend up at http://www.dk.com/ if I don't That's your browser trying to be helpful. If it is Firefox this can be turned off with about:config and browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to false. The default is true. Ah, thanks. I imagined it was FF trying to be

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20110620033503.20835.qm...@joyce.lan, John Levine writes: i think he's seen RFC 1034 :-). anyway, i don't see the difference between http://sony/ and http://sony./ Neither do any of the browsers I use, which resolve http://bi/ as well as http://dk./ just fine. Whatever problem

RE: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread George Bonser
I would guess that most of these are going to be purchased simply to prevent someone else from getting them I would agree with this part. and that most of them will never actually be placed into production. But not with this part. Well, I said most, some will likely be placed

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