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Why not just reserve .home permanently so that it won't be allocated and tell people to use it? Does that somehow result in more bogus traffic to root and other
by forapurpose 8y ago
Why not just reserve .home permanently so that it won't be allocated and tell people to use it? Does that somehow result in more bogus traffic to root and other DNS servers?
Between the lines, I read that ICANN doesn't give a f- about home users. Home users are not on the ICANN board (they've never heard of ICANN), don't give presentations at conferences or write papers, don't talk shop over lunch with ICANN members ... home users are invisible and have no voice. 'So here's this kludge that requires zero effort from us, is probably a little confusing for you[0] - we hope you like it because we're not doing anything more.'
- phicoh 8y agoThe question is then who should reserve it? The IETF can ask for domain names for technical reasons, i.e. as part of internet standards. ICANN can allocate domains as gTLDs but doesn't have mandate/policy to reserve names without using them. Effectively .home is reserved because there is too much use to safely allocate it. Finally, IETF can recognise .home as a special domain that is used locally. But that didn't work out because an insecure delegation is needed for DNSSEC. Purely formally, ICANN has 'at large' structures that represent the interests of users.