Bill McQuillan wrote:
I wonder if it would make it easier to use "example" DNS
names if, in addition to the verbose and clumsy: "*.example",
IMHO, we reserved gTLDs like "*.foo", "*.bar", "*.bat",
"*.baz", as well as the one used quite frequently on this
list lately: "*.tld", for use as example DNS names.
Or do we assume that economic concerns would triumph here?
After about 100 articles with "2606" in the subject finally a
note which really is about 2606, even if not in the subject :-)
There is certainly a tradition to use *.tld in examples, and
we could say that we want this officially reserved. While at
it we could also grab the 11 IDN example labels used together
with the 11 IDN test TLDs in the (running) IDN test. That
would give us 13 example TLDs, plus three known *.example.cno.
IMO more than enough, otherwise we could add *.lit to the set.
But the keyword is "grab" as in "domain grabbing". Without a
clear technical demand for this it could upset folks with an
interest and the money to buy TLD .tld for dubious purposes.
So far the support to grab those 11 IDN example labels as TLDs
was not overhelming, otherwise you would already see it in the
2606bis draft (idnabis-test-tlds).
Frank
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