RE: [DNS] Org.com

RE: [DNS] Org.com

From: Jon Lawrence <jon§jonlawrence.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:08:40 +0000
Well at least registrations of other TLD and ccTLD suffixes are prohibited
in the new domain spaces so this sort of thing will not be replicated in
.info, .biz etc...

jon

>-- Original Message --
>Reply-To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
>From: "Dassa" <dassa&#167;dhs.org>
>To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 22:08:28 +1100
>Subject: RE: [DNS] Org.com
>
>
>|> -----Original Message-----
>|> From: James Fiander [mailto:jfiander&#167;nimblehost.com] 
>|> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 11:02 AM
>|> To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
>|> Subject: Re: [DNS] Org.com
>|> 
>|> 
>|> oh dear,
>|> 
>|> people have let their imaginations die haven't they... if 
>|> you type ANYTHING
>|> before org.com it will resolve the same way... 
>|> http://blahblahblah.org.com
>|> it is acheived by simply putting at * instead of an actual 
>|> subdomain... so
>|> it's basically *.org.com will resolve to the website.. its common
>|> practise... i do it on my servers quite often...
>
>Yes, it is a wildcard DNS entry.  However, isn't it written into an RFC
>to not use a text string for a domain that is used for a gTLD?  Or am I
>recalling a fallacy?
>
>Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.
>
>
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