Re: [DNSOP] *.DNS metaTLD [ref: additional special names]

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 10:13:23PM -0500,
 Joe Abley <[e-mail]> wrote 
 a message of 93 lines which said:

> It's hard to see a better option than today than anchoring your new
> namespace to a domain that you register and pay for in the DNS. Your
> options in that regard include TLDs if your namespace is
> sufficiently sensitive to label length that you're prepared to pay
> the $500k+ for the process to register it; to my mind, your local
> TLD registrar can probably give you a better deal.

Bad idea. In most (all?) TLDs, you do not have sufficient security (I
don't mean technical security, I mean security against seizure or
things like that) so you risk losing your domain. And you have to
abide by the rules of a given TLD (not to mention you depend on yet
another actor, the registrar).

Of course, during the normal course of operations, it does not matter
since the normal requests are handled by another protocol, not the
DNS. But it has an importance when it comes to leaks (requests that
accidentally go to the DNS).