On 6/6/2012 8:13 AM, Johnathan Nightingale wrote:
On Jun 6, 2012, at 2:32 AM, John Nagle wrote:
On 6/5/2012 9:34 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
On 04/06/12 19:10, John Nagle wrote:
Single-word domain names are about to become a common form of
URL.
....
Until now, this was mostly a curiosity, but if there's a
"FACEBOOK" TLD, people are going to scream if it behaves like
that.
Yep. That's a problem. It sounds to me like we want to do the DNS
lookup on barewords, even knowing it will fail the vast majority of
the time. That slows down round trips for those loads, but I don't
think that rooted domain format is something we should expect users
to attempt. The other option is to just tell those domain owners "too
bad", but I think John's right that we are going to see more, not
fewer, of these. The nikes and facebooks of the world will have the
.com presence as well, and 302 their users to victory, but I don't
know if that's a healthy assumption to keep baking into our software
in the general case.
ICANN just released the first list of proposed new TLDs:
http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en
"FACEBOOK" isn't on the list, but "AOL", "AMAZON", "APPLE", "BAIDU",
"BLOOMBERG", "CADILLAC", "CALVINKLEIN", "CAPITALONE", etc. are.
Also "GOOGLE", "MICROSOFT", "YAHOO", and "YANDEX".
新闻 ("News", owned by Xinhua) and 谷歌 (Google) are also on the list.
Many of the TLDs are from domain speculators who want to resell
domains, but a sizable fraction are world-famous brands. Those
will be expected to work as bare words.
John Nagle
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