The return of the wildcard domain...
All, I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself. I thought this was of operational interest considering the effect Verisign sitefinder had. (Sorry Martin, no offence intended) So I guess the question to us all is: how will this affect our networks as a whole? Or will it at all? Or is it already? I tried this with the almost funny domain www.idunno.uk.com It does a redirect to http://www.uk.com/results/idunno?src=idunno And came back with a "The domain name "idunno.uk.com" is available for registration. Would you like to buy it" So will ICANN act on this? CentralNIC also runs the uk.com, us.com, eu.com and de.com domains. For a "news" reference: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/14/centralnic_wildcard/ Anyway, I thought I would start a new topic.. Hopefully this does not add too much to the overall S:N...... Later, Jim McBurnett
I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself.
Why should anyone care? It's just one of ten million dot-com domains.
So will ICANN act on this?
Of course not.
CentralNIC also runs the uk.com, us.com, eu.com and de.com domains.
Well, OK, they run four out of ten million dot-coms. This is not a big deal. It's not even a little deal. R's, John
On Sep 14, 2005, at 10:50 PM, John Levine wrote:
I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself.
Why should anyone care? It's just one of ten million dot-com domains.
Perhaps the original poster is thinking of .co.uk? BTW: I have a * on a couple of my personal domains. I seriously doubt ICANN cares about them either. And if they do, I don't. I paid for it, so I get to do what I like with it. -- TTFN, patrick
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, John Levine wrote:
I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself.
Why should anyone care? It's just one of ten million dot-com domains.
They have quite a lot of domain name customers who don't know enough to buy domain names from a real registry. Might be worth adding 213.146.149.160 to my mail server's bogon list, since they aren't being polite enough to run a mail rejection agent on it. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ BISCAY: WEST 5 OR 6 BECOMING VARIABLE 3 OR 4. SHOWERS AT FIRST. MODERATE OR GOOD.
On 15/09/05, Jim McBurnett <jim@tgasolutions.com> wrote:
I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to itself.
uk.com is just another consumer ISP, it is not a second level TLD like co.uk is.
So I guess the question to us all is: how will this affect our networks as a whole? Or will it at all? Or is it already?
Will it at all? --srs -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
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