Re: [dns-wg] Elimination of 2nd level ccTLD domain names

[Brad Knowles <]

At 1:19 PM +0200 2004-10-21, Piet Beertema wrote:

>  Which is short-sighted. What's the use of blocking only *existing*
>  ccTLD codes, when nobody can foresee what new ccTLD codes may come
>  to exist in the future? We've seen enough recent examples...
	Okay, so block all two and three-letter SLDs, under the 
assumption that if they aren't already valid TLDs, they might become 
valid TLDs in the future.  That would cause problems for ibm.eu, but 
would guarantee that you can prevent .com.eu from being registered 
(as one example).

	However, you'd then also have to block all four-letter SLDs, 
because there are current TLDs with four letters (.aero and .name).

	How far would you be willing to take this?

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