Hi Wangari,

ICANN deliberated and decided that dotless domains would interfere with the stability of the internet.

Here is a perfect example, http://localhost is a dotless domain. If hypothetically it was awarded to a registry, it would mean that our computers would be confused on who really is local host between the local root and the international root. Ok, that example if far fetched because localhost can never be delegated.

Now to quantify my example, suppose the word "matrix" is given out as a dotless domain? How many servers in the world are named matrix? Thousands I suppose. So in the LAN and WAN setting, all traffic to http://matrix would go to the local server, and would never reach the delegated root server for http://matrix and this would destabilize the DNS system.

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On 19 August 2013 18:24, WANGARI KABIRU <wangarikabiru@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Greetings Kelvin,

I do hope you are very well.

Many thanks for sharing and I would be glad to be enlightened more.

Is the dotless possibly the future and this is a shortsighted move or just for some time? Is there a shortage of vocabulary (like the example given of music, if taken there would be no other expressions to use)?Is the rejection by ICANN protection from a monopolistic direction if taken if so how comes there seems to be another option to get the same dotless, so why not just grant it now.

Happy to learn more from the community of experts!

Lovely day.

Regards/Wangari

 
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Subject: [ISOC_KE] Article: ICANN: No dotless domains for you, Google


ICANN: No dotless domains for you, Google
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57598967-93/icann-no-dotless-domains-for-you-google/

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