[dns-operations] dotless domains

[Paul Vixie]

On 9/20/2012 10:26 PM, Matthäus Wander wrote:
> Out of 315 TLDs, there are already 17 dotless ones:
>
> $ awk '{ print tolower($1) }' < root.zone |sort|uniq|grep -v "\.." >tld
> $ for line in $(cat tld); do dig +noall +answer $line; done;
>
> ac.                     86400   IN      A       193.223.78.210
> ai.                     14400   IN      A       209.59.119.34
> bo.                     17600   IN      A       166.114.1.28
> cm.                     86400   IN      A       195.24.205.60
> dk.                     86400   IN      A       193.163.102.24
> gg.                     86400   IN      A       87.117.196.80
> io.                     604800  IN      A       193.223.78.212
> je.                     86400   IN      A       87.117.196.80
> kh.                     10800   IN      A       203.223.32.21
> pn.                     43200   IN      A       80.68.93.100
> sh.                     86400   IN      A       193.223.78.211
> tm.                     86400   IN      A       193.223.78.213
> to.                     86400   IN      A       216.74.32.107
> uz.                     14400   IN      A       91.212.89.8
> vi.                     21600   IN      A       193.0.0.198
> ws.                     21600   IN      A       64.70.19.33
> xn--o3cw4h.             7200    IN      A       203.146.249.130
>
> This doesn't mean I approve them.

those are country code top level domains. cctld's enjoy national
sovereignty -- it is not up to ietf or icann or anybody else to tell
them what they can't do. thus they are unaffected by icann policy, and
their choices cannot guide our discussions of icann policy.

paul

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