Why is www.google.cat resolving?

Hello,

I am seeing that www.google.cat resolves from three different networks.
It even resolves from here: http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/

What is going on?

Thanks,

Tim

A quick google and wikipedia check shows...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat

.cat is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language and culture. Its policy has been developed by ICANN and Fundació puntCAT. It was approved in September 2005.

:slight_smile:

Tim Tuppence wrote:

Hello,

I am seeing that www.google.cat resolves from three different networks.
It even resolves from here: dnscheck: complete dns traversal checking

What is going on?

Thanks,

Tim

Because .CAT is a valid TLD:
   .cat - Wikipedia

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A quick google and wikipedia check shows...

.cat - Wikipedia

Thanks.

Tim Tuppence wrote:

Hello,

I am seeing that www.google.cat resolves from three different networks.
It even resolves from here: dnscheck: complete dns traversal checking

What is going on?

Why are you expecting it not to?

~Seth

a message of 14 lines which said:

I am seeing that www.google.cat resolves from three different networks.

New trend on NANOG? Complaining when things work and not when they
fail?

I think the real question here is why does schroedingers.cat not resolve, and who will be the first person able to jump through the requisite hoops make it do so.

a message of 17 lines which said:

I think the real question here is why does schroedingers.cat not
resolve,

That's because ".cat" has IDN and therefore it should be
schr�dingers.cat

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