[kictanet] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] New gTLD Dotless Domain Names Prohibited

[Barrack Otieno]

FYI

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From: Glen de Saint Géry <Glen at icann.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:42 AM
Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] New gTLD Dotless Domain Names Prohibited
To: "africann at afrinic.net" <africann at afrinic.net>


http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-30aug13-en.htm****
New gTLD Dotless Domain Names Prohibited****

30 August 2013****

At its meeting on 13 August 2013, the ICANN Board New gTLD Program
Committee (NGPC) adopted a
resolution<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/documents/resolutions-new-gtld-13aug13-en.htm#1>affirming
that "dotless domain names" are prohibited. Dotless domain names
are those that consist of a single label (e.g.,
http://*example*<http://example>,
or mail@*example)*. Dotless names would require the inclusion of, for
example, an A, AAAA, or MX, record in the apex of a TLD zone in the DNS
(i.e., the record relates to the TLD-string itself).****

In addition to public comments on dotless domain names, the NGPC considered
the security and stability risks associated with dotless domain names
highlighted in the following papers:****

   - On 23 February 2012, the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory
   Committee (SSAC) published SAC 053: SSAC Report on Dotless
Domains<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-053-en.pdf>
[PDF,
   183 KB]. In this report, the SSAC stated that dotless domains would not be
   universally reachable and recommended strongly against their use. As a
   result, the SSAC recommended that the use of DNS resource records such as
   A, AAAA, and MX in the apex of a Top-Level Domain (TLD) should be
   contractually prohibited where appropriate, and strongly discouraged in all
   cases.****
   - On 10 July 2013 the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) released a statement
   on dotless domain
names<http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-documents/2013-2/iab-statement-dotless-domains-considered-harmful/>,
   recommending against the use of dotless domain names for TLDs.****
   - On 29 July 2013 Carve Systems delivered a report on dotless domain
   names, which was commissioned by ICANN. Consistent with the SSAC
report, Carve's
   report on dotless domain
names<http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/dotless-domain-study-29jul13-en.pdf>[PDF,
1.02 MB] identifies security and stability issues.
   ****

When adopting its resolution, the NGPC considered the security and
stability risks identified in these papers, as well as the impracticality
of mitigating these risks. Based on the NGPC resolution, ICANN does not
plan to pursue any additional studies on the subject.****

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Glen de Saint Géry
GNSO Secretariat
*gnso.secretariat at gnso.icann.org*
*http://gnso.icann.org*****

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