An interesting point, but probably one better made to ICANN. Try icann@icann.org. Since its not a standards or protocol issue its probably not an IETF issue.
Thanks - Mike
At 11:59 9/16/2003, dbotham@edeltacom.com wrote:
Verisign's recent inclusion of wildcard RR's for the .net and .com TLD's does not violate any standards in the DNS that I can find, although it has raised some interesting questions with regard to the ethical behavior or TLD managers.
I think that managers of the TLD's should not be allow to use wild card RR's in this manner. I think there is a vast difference between a second level domain name holder using a wildcard and a TLD manager using a wildcard. That differnce being that the TLD managers are custodians of second level domain names and as such the public trusts that they will manage that domain name space in a fair and equitable manner. TLD managers charge the public for the right to use second level domains. They should not be allow to profit from the use of unused second level domains. I believe that TLD managers should have to choose between profiting from their registration services and profiting from the use of the domain name space they are trusted to manage.
I am not saying that TLD manager's should not be allow to profit from second level domains they register for themselves. They should be free to register any second level domain name they can legally register and use it for whatever purpose they wish. They should be specifically prohibited from using all unregistered second level domains by virtue of the fact that they can synthisise any second level domain name on the fly due to their technical position in the resolution path.
David Botham