Yeah. Over in Mac land, no warning on dotless domain, but iCloud's Oracle
servers then tried to qualify the domains and hence failed.
FWIW, this is entirely configurable. If you want dotless domains to
be treated as bare gTLDs you can get that, if you want them qualified
with your local domain you can get that. You can also have only
valid gTLDs treated as bare gTLDs, the rest handled some other way.
It may be configurable on an individual level, but if Google, Apple or
whoever want to be able to publish "sales@apple" type addresses, they've got
no
chance. It just wouldn't work for billions of people. They'd have to say "just
email us on sales@apple and if that doesn't work go reconfigure your mail
server, change ISP, reconfigure your dns server, upgrade your infrastructure,
change the way you access local resources, etc"
I'm well aware of all this. My point, such as it was, was that this stuff *is*
highly configurable, and in practice it can and will be set in all sorts of
different ways.
They just need to accept that it won't work, and CAN'T be made to work for
everyone at a global level.
Agreed.
Ned
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