RE: Fwd: [ga] Public Comments Requested on DNS Stability: The Effect of New gTLDs on ,the Internet Domain Name System

["Dominik Filipp" <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>]

Karl,

though not making practical sense, considering file extensions as TLDs
does not cause any technical problem whatsoever. It is perfectly valid.
File extensions follow file (or directory) names delimited by dot, which
in turn follow domain name delimited by slash. It is therefore the first
slash delimiter (except the very first double-slash protocol delimiter,
of course) that unequivocally denotes the file (or query) part of URL. A
dot-string .SOMETHING before the first slash always resolves to a domain
name URL part whereas dot-strings after the first slash resolve to
non-domain URL parts, such as file or directory extensions, query
substrings, specific parameters, etc.

Just a technical note on the topic...

Dominik
  

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Karl Auerbach
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:12 AM
To: Christopher Anderson
Cc: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Fwd: [ga] Public Comments Requested on DNS Stability: The
Effect of New gTLDs on ,the Internet Domain Name System


Christopher Anderson wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christopher Anderson <significants@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Feb 8, 2008 8:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [ga] Public Comments Requested on DNS Stability: The 
> Effect of New gTLDs on ,the Internet Domain Name System
> To: "GNSO.SECRETARIAT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" 
> <gnso.secretariat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
>> One of the policy recommendations developed in relation to the 
>> introduction of new gTLDs included the requirement that "Strings must

>> not cause any technical instability."

> (my translation of "technical instability" reads: ...

There has been talk about things like a .exe TLD - that might confuse
certain software on certain operating systems to be confused into
thinking that the named thing is somehow an executable file.

Of course that same exact issue exists on that same software for names
ending in .com as well.

Hmmm, maybe I'll start up the ".htm", ."html", and ".php" top level
domains and register "index.htm", "index.html", and "index.php" to
myself. .... ;-)  That'll learn people to properly end their URL's with
a slash.

                --karl--