David Conrad (drc) writes:
1) The new gTLD stuff hasn't gotten as far as the point where the testing of IDN stuff started.
Mhh, ok :)
2) ICANN (or rather, the technical side of ICANN staff) has thought about this and there is a 'technical evaluation' phase of the application evaluation
Fair enough.
3) We've already run into the 'private TLD' thing: lots of global companies (apparently) have internal domains organized on regional/continental boundaries. When '.asia' was put into the root, the Internet did not break.
The other way around. And if I ping 'dk', my resolver stops after "catpipe.net" and my other private domain. It doesn't try "dk.", even though dk. has an A record associated with it. I get NXDOMAIN.
Your resolver appears to be broken. Works for me:
dig doesn't use the resolver the same way other applications do. Try "ping dk" vs "ping dk.", or "telnet dk" vs. telnet "dk." Of course, depends on the OS -- but at least on a few BSDs (OS X, FreeBSD), Linuxes (Debian, Ubuntu), it behaves the same way.