On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 01:16:41PM -0700, Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 206 lines which said: > I believe that .onion is, essentially, a way for structuring > protocol addresses so that they appear to be DNS names. It does not > conform to the delegation model of the DNS, It does not have to conform since .onion is a domain name, not a DNS name. The whole point of this "registration" is to avoid leaks in the DNS (section 2 of the draft). > This does not describe special handling _within the DNS_, but > instead removes a portion of the global namespace from the DNS at > all. Same thing for RFC 6762 (which was the first applictaion of RFC 6761, and nobody objected about it).