We can call them "rooted" domain names and "pwned" domain names...
--- () ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Sullivan [mailto:asulli...@dyn.com] > Sent: Saturday, 23 February, 2013 15:15 > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted > FQDNs > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:26:58PM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote: > > > > No trailing dot allowed; "each domain label starting and ending with > > an alphanumerical character"; > > Note, however, that the URI specification actually contemplates the > possibility of the host part being a dom-spec, and the names in that > are able to be terminated with a dot. Or at least that's how I read > it when I looked it up the other day. > > A > > -- > Andrew Sullivan > Dyn, Inc. > asulli...@dyn.com > v: +1 603 663 0448