ICANN kills Google's dotless domain search dreams


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We'd like to imagine that somewhere in Mountain View, a group of high-level tech execs are giving ICANN the stink eye. After all, the organization has recently passed a resolution that prohibits dotless domains, effectively squashing Google's dreams to own and operate http://search. This development follows a study ICANN published a few days ago, detailing how hard it'll be to mitigate security and stability risks that could come with the unusual domains. Google had big plans to turn http://search into a service where users could choose among a number of search websites that registered to be a part of it. Now that the one-word wonder is no longer an option for Page and Co., the company has to make do with .search (with a dot), assuming its bidding spree for a pile of gTLDs pays off.

 

 

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/17/icann-dotless-domain-google-search/

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That would go against everything the domain name system stands for. A "dotless" name is used to denote a machine on the local network is it not?

In addition, if you have two domains with the same name but one is .com and one is .net

What would happen in this case?

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I don't see how this would have worked in practise, the DNS server I run doesn't run a lookup for any "dotless" names, it considers them to be local hosts and only gives answers for DHCP entries.

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