[dns-operations] getting .CW recognised in the Google ccTLD tables/databases ...

[Rick Wesson]

+1

getting on the mozilla list effects lots of applications.

-rick


On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 4:55 PM, RijilV <rijilv at riji.lv> wrote:
> My experience is many people use Mozilla's public suffix list for allowing
> folks to create resources on their app services.  This is because a large
> number of TLDs don't support creating records directly off of them, and the
> 3rd parties don't want to accidentally grant ownership to a higher namespace
> to an individual.  For example, .uk is a TLD, but you shouldn't let people
> regirester apps under that because someone could cleverly take co.uk and
> create sub apps within that that they didn't own.
>
> http://publicsuffix.org/list/
>
> Incidentally, I don't see .cw in that list.  It is open to submissions...
> http://publicsuffix.org/submit/
>
> .r'
>
>
> On 20 January 2013 16:28, Joe Abley <jabley at hopcount.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2013-01-21, at 11:55, .CW Registry Curacao <registry at una.net> wrote:
>>
>> > I am not sure this is an issue that you can do anything about, however
>> > we have been advised by our colleagues from the ccNSO (ICANN) to send you
>> > this email message.
>> >
>> > We need some help with getting our ccTLD registered worldwide.
>> > Several Internet services sites cannot be used by our customers, because
>> > the .CW is not recognized.
>> > In our case it prevents us as university to make use of (for instance)
>> > Google Apps.
>>
>> There are google people on this list who (if they haven't already
>> contacted you about it) will no doubt be happy to help you out with that
>> specific problem, in their normal efficient way.
>>
>> More generally, there are many people who make assumptions about what a
>> valid domain name is. A common example (I find) can be found in web forms
>> which validate e-mail addresses. I can't even remember the number of times I
>> was told that jabley at ca.afilias.info was invalid when I was working for
>> Afilias, which always struck me as pleasantly ironic, especially when the
>> web forms in question were provided by people trying to sell us stuff.
>>
>> There's no central registry for broken human expectations of how the DNS
>> works. You pretty much need to just get used to complaining to the people
>> who provide individual broken services when you find them.
>>
>>
>> Joe
>>
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