On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:09 PM, David Conrad wrote:
On Jun 17, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
http://apple/ is going to break a bunch of shit.
All fully qualified domain names have a trailing dot so that you know where the root is. At least as parsed internally by your resolver...
Sure. And Apple's gonna make sure they put that trailing dot in their ads and links and stuff... and their users will, without fail, remember to type it. :-)
I suspect the folks who spend $185K + yearly fees will be able to afford engineering staff that will point out that a naked TLD is unlikely to work for the great unwashed masses. And if they don't, they'll get exactly what they deserve.
That won't stop them from building zone files that look like this: @ IN SOA ... NS ... ... A ... AAAA ... www A ... AAAA ... Sure, they'll advertise www.apple, but, you better believe that they'll take whatever lands at http://apple and you can certainly count on the fact that any mal-actors that get control of one of these TLDs (whether they paid the $185k or not) will take full advantage of the situation and its security risks.
What I suspect you'll more likely see will be macbook.apple or japan.cisco or copyright-enforcement.universal.
Sure, you'll see all of that, TOO. They're not mutually exclusive.
Maybe.
Almost certainly. Owen