The RFC or the reason why you can not create CNAME record for the "root record"

[Pete Ehlke]

On Tue Jun 01, 2004 at 14:48:14 -0500, Preston Wade wrote:
>It seems that I have sparked some great discussion!  But what I keep =
>going back to is does it even make sense, given the hierarchical =
>structure of the DNS name space, to have records that typically =
>represent host for domains?
>
Yes. In the real world, users expect that if they type hilton.com into
thir browser, they will get hilton's web site.