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

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas and all,

 I and most of our members also cannot see how such a list solves
any real problems other than informational purposes only.  How
ICANN comes up with these inane ideas is beyond reasonable
logic...

Thomas Roessler wrote:

> 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>

Regards,
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