interesting point. if we created a new gTLD and announced that it would be wildcarded from day one, it wouldn't be used in the same way as the other gTLDs. then again, do we really want different ways of reporting errors for different zones in the DNS? would apps then want to special-case certain zones to interpret their results differently than the others? Keith > when people started beating on my phone ringer about wildcards yesterday > evening, and screaming for patches to bind to somehow make it all better, > i asked "but other tld's do this, what's the big deal?" as near as i can > figure it, the problem is one of expectation. if someone signs up for .nu > they know there'll be a wildcard there before they sign, and they can take > appropriate precautions (like only using it for web or e-mail, and not > naming hosts under that tld). the expectations for .com and .net to not > have wildcards were all set many years ago, and it's the violation of those > expectations that's got people angry enough to publish patchware about it.