Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> Mon, 30 June 2008 12:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?
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Stephane,

On Jun 29, 2008, at 11:41 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> a TLD is a domain like any other.

In theory, yes.  In reality, no.  Speaking technically, how would you  
distinguish the top-level domain "127.0.0.1" from the IP address  
127.0.0.1?

Regards,
-drc

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