The return of the wildcard domain...

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All,

I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to
itself.

I thought this was of operational interest considering the effect
Verisign sitefinder had.
(Sorry Martin, no offence intended)

So I guess the question to us all is: how will this affect our networks
as a whole?
Or will it at all? Or is it already?

I tried this with the almost funny domain www.idunno.uk.com
It does a redirect to http://www.uk.com/results/idunno?src=idunno
And came back with a "The domain name "idunno.uk.com" is available for
registration. Would you like to buy it"

So will ICANN act on this?
CentralNIC also runs the uk.com, us.com, eu.com and de.com domains.

For a "news" reference:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/14/centralnic_wildcard/

Anyway, I thought I would start a new topic..
Hopefully this does not add too much to the overall S:N......

Later,

Jim McBurnett

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I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to
itself.

Why should anyone care? It's just one of ten million dot-com domains.

So will ICANN act on this?

Of course not.

CentralNIC also runs the uk.com, us.com, eu.com and de.com domains.

Well, OK, they run four out of ten million dot-coms. This is not a
big deal. It's not even a little deal.

R's,
John

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Perhaps the original poster is thinking of .co.uk?

BTW: I have a * on a couple of my personal domains. I seriously doubt ICANN cares about them either. And if they do, I don't. I paid for it, so I get to do what I like with it.

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I saw this evening that CentralNic had added *.uk.com to point to
itself.

uk.com is just another consumer ISP, it is not a second level TLD like co.uk is.

So I guess the question to us all is: how will this affect our networks
as a whole?
Or will it at all? Or is it already?

Will it at all?

--srs

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They have quite a lot of domain name customers who don't know enough to
buy domain names from a real registry.

Might be worth adding 213.146.149.160 to my mail server's bogon list,
since they aren't being polite enough to run a mail rejection agent on it.

Tony.