On Sunday, September 12, 2004, 11:04:57 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Jeff Chan wrote:
I'll add the ones mentioned in RFC 2606: example.com example.net example.org but we should also include common examples from everyday use, even if they're not technically RFC compliant.
Be very careful with this. I know that test.de and invalid.de are okay, but generally you can't fix all silly abuse ideas.
We probably would not be whitelisting geographic names like these.
It's better to support 2606 (example.cno, *.example, *.test, *.invalid, *.localhost). For the TLDs that's no problem, you already know that example/test/invalid/localhost are reserved. And *.local isn't better (but not officially reserved).
We won't be whitelisting any entire TLDs, even these test ones.
But something like say local.tv, who knows ? Maybe they are spammers, maybe they don't exist, maybe they are okay. One SLD rarely or never abused might be NIC.* in all existing TLDs.
There's no capability for wildcarding whitelist entries, nor do I plan to add any. local.tv would be a geographic name which we would not generically whitelist.
Jeff C.