
We can call them "rooted" domain names and "pwned" domain names... --- () ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Sullivan [mailto:asullivan@dyn.com] Sent: Saturday, 23 February, 2013 15:15 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:26:58PM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote:
No trailing dot allowed; "each domain label starting and ending with an alphanumerical character";
Note, however, that the URI specification actually contemplates the possibility of the host part being a dom-spec, and the names in that are able to be terminated with a dot. Or at least that's how I read it when I looked it up the other day.
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