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[council] SSAC report on "dotless" domain names

  • To: "Council GNSO" <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [council] SSAC report on "dotless" domain names
  • From: "Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 13:05:09 +1000
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  • Thread-topic: SSAC report on "dotless" domain names

Hello ALl,

A frequent question is whether new gTLDs could be used without a second
level domain separated from the top level with a dot.  ie can we use
names in a "dotless" format.

e.g http://canon or sales@canon

ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has reviewed
this topic and made the following recommendation:

" Dotless domains will not be universally reachable and the SSAC
recommends strongly against their use. As a result, the SSAC also
recommends that
the use of DNS resource records such as A, AAAA, and MX in the apex of a
Top-
Level Domain (TLD) be contractually prohibited where appropriate and
strongly
discouraged in all cases."

See:

http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-053-en.pdf

Regards,
Bruce Tonkin




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