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Re: [therightkey] First public DNSChain server went online yesterday!

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Sat, 08 February 2014 22:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [therightkey] First public DNSChain server went online yesterday!
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On Feb 7, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Tao Effect <contact@taoeffect.com> wrote:

> It's a meta-TLD, not a TLD.

Say what? If the idea is that I can get a certificate with paulehoffman.dns put in the field reserved for domain names, and have that accepted by TLS servers, it is a TLD. No "meta".

If this TLD gets allocated to someone else, or gets blocked by middleboxes, you have no one to blame but yourself. It would be *trivial* to avoid this problem by buying an SLD and pre-paying for 20 years of registration.

--Paul Hoffman

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