At 13:53 +0200 on 21 Oct (1098366806), Brad Knowles wrote:
Okay, so block all two and three-letter SLDs, under the assumption that if they aren't already valid TLDs, they might become valid TLDs in the future. That would cause problems for ibm.eu, but would guarantee that you can prevent .com.eu from being registered (as one example).
However, you'd then also have to block all four-letter SLDs, because there are current TLDs with four letters (.aero and .name).
...and six-letter words: .museum :) Blocking just the two-letter SLDs is still a reasonable policy; it solves the problem for the predictable case (ccTLDs). It doesn't prevent collisions with new gTLDs but that's not a reason to drop it entirely. Tim. -- Tim Deegan <tjd@phlegethon.org> We were back to the sad age-old knowledge that there are only two genuine aphrodisiacs: youth and boredom. [ Alistair Cooke, "Letter From America", 12/5/98 ]