RE: [tld-acceptance] List of all top level domains

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It might be helpful to publish the current list and follow through on
Thomas's suggestion.  Also, when the list is updated, it would be good to
highlight the updates so that it would be easy to identify needed changes in
code.

Chuck Gomes
VeriSign Naming & Directory Services



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tld-acceptance@xxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-tld-acceptance@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Roessler
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 4:40 AM
> To: Tina Dam
> Cc: tld-acceptance@xxxxxxxxx; Doug Barton
> Subject: Re: [tld-acceptance] List of all top level domains
> 
> 
> On 2004-12-14 13:54:03 +0200, Tina Dam wrote:
> 
> > To assist further in making the acceptance of all top level domains 
> > universal, IANA has developed and published a table containing all 
> > currently available top level domains. The list will be updated as 
> > necessary when new TLDs become available.
> 
> $ wget -qO - ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/root.zone.gz | gunzip | \
>   awk '($2 == "NS") { print $1 }' | tr -d . | sort -u > 
> hosts.txt^W^H^H
> 
> ;-)
> 
> While it's certainly nice to have that kind of list even more 
> readily available, I wonder if it really solves any problems 
> with acceptance of new TLDs -- or if it actually contributes 
> to the acceptance problems we have been seeing.
> 
> In reality, this list will -- if at all! -- be used to seed 
> hard-coded lists of TLDs in some applications.  These 
> applications will be fine until the next time the set of TLDs 
> changes. They will then generate the very problems the list 
> is supposed to solve.
> 
> IANA should try to drive home with application developers the 
> point that the *only* reliable way to verify whether or not a 
> domain name exists is to query the DNS -- not some list 
> downloaded from a web site.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Thomas Roessler                             
<roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>