Authoritative Server - Referrals to root
Simon Hobson
shobson-lists at colony.com
Fri Apr 8 13:53:20 UTC 2005
Jim Reid wrote:
> >> If there's something I've overlooked, please tell us.
>>
>> Changes to the root zone, other than addition/removal of country
>> domains, are not going to happen without much warning and publicity.
>
>This discussion started from the assumption that such a change was made
>to the root.
>
>Besides, the amount of publicity and advance notice for adding a new
>TLD makes no difference to the point I raised. If someone is already
>using their own private instance of that TLD, they're going to have
>problems once the official version is created. [That point applies to
>ANY domain name, not just a TLD.] The publicity and advance warning for
>a new TLD presumably just gives someone in that situation more time to
>do something about it.
But bear in mind that a great many 'admins' would not see such news,
or would not recognise it's relevance. I can think of a few sites
where the DNS is run by 'ticking the boxes in the GUI' and the admin
really doesn't know about such niceties as ICANN, TLDs, etc.
I personally have the issue to tackle of a subsiduary that has used
an unregistered .com name for their network - even though I pointed
out to them before they did it that they are not the 'owners' of the
name in question. I suspect the support I'll get from management will
be along the lines of "what's the problem, it's working isn't it ?"
Simon
PS - is '.local' officially reserved, and if so, can someone point me
to the relevant document. Nothing I've tried seems to want to act on
'.local' as a search term !
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