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> From my POV, squatters rights should apply and ICANN has no business delegating widely used TLDs, even if they are not formally registered (in which case they
by CydeWeys 6y ago
> From my POV, squatters rights should apply and ICANN has no business delegating widely used TLDs, even if they are not formally registered (in which case they would be expected to pay $$$$-$$$$$$ / y).
Who's the "they" in this sentence? ICANN delegating the TLD formally is the mechanism by which you pay money to delegate a TLD. Until said TLD is delegated, it's not a real TLD, and does not resolve on the Internet. You can't use it in a meaningful sense until it is a real TLD, and once it is a real TLD, global collision rules apply. The fake use cases and the real use cases are fundamentally incompatible.
- labawi 6y agoI think I've had this discussion with you. "they" are TLDs I can use tor (.onion), namecoin (.bit), dn42 test net (.dn42) or others. They work and people use them, so not fake, just not registered with ICANN. Most of them work fine along with ICANN DNS. They require alternative forms of DNS resolution, so they don't work with ICANN DNS, but that is actually desirable for many of them. I can also have .lan addresses on my router, .corp addresses on corporate vpn, or whatever in my hosts file and they work. Hosts file works even better than global DNS, so the domains are definitely real, not fake. Just not global, even when globally used.