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ICANN Registers Improper Domain Names

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dash-dot-com dept.

wetmondo writes "When ICANN was started in order to open up domain registration to competition, some people worried that this might create some problems. Well, here is proof that they were right. Yahoo! is reporting that they screwed up and registered domain names with dashes at the end such as e-.com. Domain names with dashes at the end causes ftp and telnet to fail."

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  1. New TLD's by starman97 · · Score: 5

    The only way that makes sense for trademark issues is to create a TLD for each tradmark field, there are about 40 of them. Then add a country code since envery country does not have the same system of tradmard classification. So, for example ,
    www.macdonalds.food.us would sell Big Macs,
    www.macdonalds.farm.us would do the EIEIO thing..
    and etoys.merchant.us would leave etoy.art.uk alone.
    There would be room for apple.comp.us and apple.music.uk and apple.food.* and apple.electronic.uk could be Apple Computer's UK site depending on how the UK/EU does it's Trademark classifications.

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    Starman97@Gmail.com (bring it on spammers)
  2. Re:Why does the dash break telnet/ftp? by slashdot-me · · Score: 5

    It breaks various programs because it is an ILLEGAL name. (I think the standards have changed since the old days and are a bit more flexible). However, it is still recommended that domain names have the following form:

    A domain name is a sequence of labels seperated by dots '.'

    A label is a sequence of letters 'a..z', digits '0..9', and hyphens '-'. A digit may not be the first character of a label. A hyphen may not be the first or last character of a label. A label must be less than 64 characters in length.

    Ryan