[council] 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 Attachment:
sac-053-en.pdf |