At 23:40 05/10/2003, Niels Bakker wrote:
do arbitrary changes to them. Marking "com" and "net" as delegation-only is not harming anything. (At least until ICANN changes its mind.)
According to this mail: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg00532.html ... apparently it breaks IDN resolution. Does anybody have the definite word on that?
It would seem to do so, yes - removal of the wildcard would also imply that Verisign's IDN stopgap (between applications which use the xn-- encoding and applications which do 8-bit dns) will now break. -- Joel Rowbottom, http://www.centralnic.com - CTO and self-confessed Unix geek <t> +44 (0)20 7751 9000 <f> +44 (0)20 7736 9253 <e> joel@centralnic.com # Note: Contents may not necessarily represent the opinions of CentralNic.