Hi, On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:29:48PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > Given the recent influx of new TLDs breaking pseudo TLDs (most recently > .box), who tells us that there won't be an official .dn42 soon? :/
No one does. Even though .onion is protected by an RFC published by the IETF there's actually nothing stopping ICANN from saying that there's an ICANN (I don't like the use of the word official here) .onion TLD. I would hope that .dn42 is enough of a non-generic alphanumeric combination that there would not be conflicts, but there is literally no way to guarantee that there will not be conflicts due to the way that ICANN operated. The same can be said of .local, .corp, .i2p, .bit and more. These all have reasonably large deployments and the introduction of new names is disruptive to the users of these names but ICANN never gave us a method of choosing names that would never become ICANN TLDs. Thanks, Iain.
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