It's not at all a quirk of DNS. Or I spent too much time reading O'Reilly's "DNS and BIND" and everyone else thinks "no, that's not the root-root zone, that's

It's not at all a quirk of DNS. Or I spent too much time reading O'Reilly's "DNS and BIND" and everyone else thinks "no, that's not the root-root zone, that's a quirk".