[NA-Discuss] Dotless domains

Garth Bruen gbruen at knujon.com
Mon Jun 10 13:52:23 UTC 2013


Will add to call agenda

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[mailto:na-discuss-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org] On Behalf Of Thompson,
Darlene
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 8:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] Dotless domains

Thank you SO much for this "dotless domains for dummies" explanations!
Thank you all for your postings as this helps all of us that aren't up on
this topic.

D

Darlene A. Thompson
Community Access Program Administrator
Nunavut Dept. of Education / N-CAP
P.O. Box 1000, Station 910
Iqaluit, NU  X0A 0H0
Phone:  (867) 975-5631
Fax:  (867) 975-5610
E-mail:  dthompson at gov.nu.ca
 
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From: John R. Levine [mailto:johnl at iecc.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 12:50 AM
To: Thompson, Darlene; Evan Leibovitch
Cc: NARALO Discussion List
Subject: RE: [NA-Discuss] Dotless domains

> To try to understand this issue:  why were dotless domains ruled out of
the new gTLD expansion?  What is the problem with them?

The SSAC 053 report describes the issues pretty well.  The short explanation
is that for the past zillion years (in Internet time) the only use of
dotless names has been private use on internal networks, and there's a lot
of software that assumes that's what they are.  Adding global dotless
domains would be really flaky.

Typical example:

http://blah/

means a local host called blah, not the .blah domain.

The GAC objected to Google's having .search as a private domain, so Google
concocted a dotless hack and sent it to ICANN, who are currently scratching
their heads.  There are several other applicants for .search so even if
ICANN were to decide Google's application was OK, they'd still have to slug
it out with the other applicants.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
http://jl.ly

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