Re: Scotland ccTLD?

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

On Sep 17, 2014, at 7:17 AM, Jens Link <lists () quux de> wrote:
> Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> writes:
> > On Sep 16, 2014, at 8:55 AM, Majdi S. Abbas <msa () latt net> wrote:
> > >     su is not available.
> > I think it is now, since the break up of the Soviet Union.

No it is not.

> A friend told me that .su domains are quite common in windows
> environments after the admins discovered that .local is not a good
> choice. ;-)

That would be an *exceptionally* bad idea.  If queries to those domains leaked out of the local environment (which, of 
course, _never_ happens), they could be resolved simply by purchasing the .SU domain and then setting up name servers 
with a wildcard to return an address for a honeypot.  The bad guys could then just sit and wait (and then profit).  
This is a form of ‘name collision’ which is all the rage these days (see 
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-collision-2013-12-06-en).

Regards,
-drc

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