On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:45:55PM -0700, Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> wrote a message of 31 lines which said:
The difference between '[a-z0-9\-\.]*\.[a-z]{2-5}'
If this is a regexp for the current root zone, it is wrong... (".museum" and the test IDNs, whose punycode encoding contains digits and hyphens.)
Aside from the IP issues it effectively precludes anyone from defining a hostname that cannot also be someone else's domain name.
Interesting requirment but one which was never written down, I'm afraid. You certainly cannot expect ICANN to comply with every requirment that someone at Nanog may imagine every day.
Will you still think that when someone buys the right to the .nic tld and starts harvesting your queries and query related traffic?
Be my guest. The DNS is a tree and the existence of nic.de or nic.com was never a problem. Why should ".nic" be different?