On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jay Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> While the topic of "how Mediawiki handles URLs" is on the table, let me > point > out today's Slashdot piece, which notes that ICANN is about to open up the > gTLD namespace... > > *to everyone*, not just commercial registries. > > Contemplate, if you will: > > http://apple/ > > How will MW handle a FQDN with no dots in it, when that becomes legal? > Those are already perfectly legal hostnames to have in URLs, and you see single-part hostnames all the time on internal networks, either by eliding the local domain part (since local DNS will resolve it) or by only using single-part names to begin with. For a common example: try linking to http://localhost/ -- it works just fine. :) I suppose "in theory" having "apple" available is no worse than "apple.com" (since you *could* have an "apple.com.mylocaldomain" already and have to worry about which takes precedence), but in practice that sounds like a crappy thing to do. :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
