Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

Appears to now get you a redirect to https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/

For those arguing that 512+ octet replies don't occur:

baikal:owen (14) ~ % dig @a.nic.dk -t any dk.                        2011/06/19 17:03:56
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.

; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> @a.nic.dk -t any dk.
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8417
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 19, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 7
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dk.                            IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dk.                     86400   IN      SOA     b.nic.dk. tech.dk-hostmaster.dk. 1308524460 600 300 3024000 3600
dk.                     86400   IN      A       193.163.102.24
dk.                     86400   IN      RRSIG   A 8 1 86400 20110623053818 20110616000559 42220 dk. 
vWYPal2lEoKjPUsBLjUibPISlij+zHcqJY7k0WP5C86SgHMERArxLD2r VqJwWlXlhDAmSRitX3aTyyZyI+lL1qSh4u1eNns0/9I/ysV+Hn7NbRgC 
A0Kwkspgc47MbPPPZOvlL37ZmbEN2jwCLckyESzaPpThF/sI5ZwGKr6N +mI=
dk.                     86400   IN      RRSIG   NS 8 1 86400 20110627054850 20110619180550 42220 dk. 
ckianMaLf8ajkiwk+jaPJyG98Ojv4ScDLB6HORiVXSesJEjLV/W2EF0Q CcOy3KeIws8xPCqKiovIESpwMJlP4Rwk+u9vO546/XdKekU5FdoeWhuw 
ebLoB29ahKcUvXo9s+uzHmUhbb8jEKDEgxyQIfjSLP+E6Op6+LAwKvOp dYw=
dk.                     86400   IN      RRSIG   SOA 8 1 86400 20110626220327 20110619220601 42220 dk. 
AQFNW7TNXsI4ZOAMzNYYYcDeMBO2mbmdmJt5fzKGrttoZDZmVopN9z7D cA9TIGiLERDxfk/lsuUO+QQAK6V4Gi9fawP/rThqTRv/HbI9+eTBDoTa 
3RXEmHmnO+c769Hol7fy7ADkpOtFhb9xl4KLVV8sUDU/rL6wIM73kkl/ sGg=
dk.                     86400   IN      RRSIG   TXT 8 1 86400 20110626123535 20110619220601 42220 dk. 
tmrYWviDeeZmd5Jx1cd79IIjTYQL7do3TOomwqVEkCxwkfSR1H1H5r/x ZigoqqY9DApq3Lyyye95bSDRIaiOjKZksbgpj7Fd4AgxrD5SR1GUZTaz 
uVP+MAW3x6y0Z02YJmCAt6I0OcdaCAHInQHjnGJCiBSkNickbB1+aRu8 cYM=
dk.                     86400   IN      RRSIG   DNSKEY 8 1 86400 20110626014930 20110618154633 26887 dk. 
G67qd6YFu4ezyVYR5R2Jk7+Rb60bFt7siEaKKs2zZllCx5PFWLZtwrxR 4Rpp+FXtJk759XmaXQf0h33mG1nmJ2ReQNflVDnPddpl5YjbiLt2EHbc 
OuW3630mbNPVWN7G2HucxNZVzKqpApvfjYfo6cyv2DOk4uXNZCuQlPgM CsCizGgq8qtliY80zYFSsL9UEXlzRgQR7e57v7pOhsaZll0FfdUes2dB 
nfJtG97cFgOpfdct2YmcRFiowWTu4DMPCPZ5MZEGoqx1pwB0hTJ8KcJX gBhgm0n6riIYxZbbPe449tB+IprAQ+H9pdjOYPOZ74lznZjrcRW0IpnI 
Kb5DBQ==
dk.                     3600    IN      RRSIG   NSEC3PARAM 8 1 3600 20110624180533 20110618010606 42220 dk. 
bgMTmGKNs9M0VVoFIAiOpaAKvkzdV6PWSoCAf+VgFdOC7nJ3SgZG5nkz dubwoebOada+Si1f6kv/sWRUM9WTTY3gnfNFMdv51KLNOq9km2TLPjqG 
HKmTPTr5nVFSKLj53S5fmI8zfm9nye8fh7GN2WoxW0pdlrZUItCGjCw9 S8E=
dk.                     86400   IN      NS      a.nic.dk.
dk.                     86400   IN      NS      b.nic.dk.
dk.                     86400   IN      NS      c.nic.dk.
dk.                     86400   IN      NS      l.nic.dk.
dk.                     86400   IN      NS      p.nic.dk.
dk.                     86400   IN      NS      s.nic.dk.
dk.                     86400   IN      TXT     "DK zone update" "Epoch 1308524460" "localtime Mon Jun 20 01:01:00 
2011" "gmtime Sun Jun 19 23:01:00 2011"
dk.                     86400   IN      DNSKEY  256 3 8 AwEAAcRBGC1Fr12DjYvQQPNnOAzq/oDOibyuF61UzTRnmakZ7rV2xsDb 
WDl1Jp+Yt/BCqKxZ9M1TkrUFMDWynN7vzqJOKg8WLwIZmB6VvyEQvqv0 qu4B2Ss/ADeoYInVflc/iD6bINriRtWzvefOqrhbctCmQIKqT+BBRu0Q 
Y4y2twTn
dk.                     86400   IN      DNSKEY  256 3 8 AwEAAd2Ny7OFu4XZ9M3NQQDMxdZwIq8WGfz5n0uAbAw8npuPsmHPtp0N 
xYpwIg1dUJSnf19RhlWUeu1M32w65oRW0pRxRvk8zdihEewW3wywEjRA 9Zp0eDT0X+xUPL3+xE4wWNl3qBZm1JW0hSqS9TAR05XbO5aQ9/W9o4h+ 
NJ4Q6Rsf
dk.                     86400   IN      DNSKEY  257 3 8 AwEAAcX56/UAMzmxalCMl5KWD5ViYJIRhWI8upQy/KI7HL8rCkltQOY+ 
MGkdNIndl1m0IrqJ58pbFn3X6CSfXsbas0G0Pg5NyApomTtalw3E4CQH LeXc6aZF97PcE4w1tjucZAtgGmvPEJLPnkQJOrUoqklAUaKUyT4HXyr8 
zPwsuT+S0sSJmpTrtQVbZwY0TXr7CrYRtpg/aFjNzRRSQC8RljQjRZi2 KammIx7PocVx8VXy6pzKEWDP4yOCmcJkh0oa3fP0QCIpSlrlPArKbLsA 
UN62ARflz04TrA0zskvRo4ah+C9Di9Il6KgkdAcUgdNX1FAvoo80GTqb 6rpZFsx7tn0=
dk.                     3600    IN      NSEC3PARAM 1 0 17 96AB3C09C88F066B

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
b.nic.dk.               86400   IN      A       193.163.102.222
c.nic.dk.               86400   IN      A       208.76.168.244
l.nic.dk.               86400   IN      A       192.38.7.242
p.nic.dk.               86400   IN      A       204.61.216.36
s.nic.dk.               86400   IN      A       77.72.229.252
b.nic.dk.               86400   IN      AAAA    2a01:630:0:80::53
s.nic.dk.               86400   IN      AAAA    2a01:3f0:0:303::53

;; Query time: 554 msec
;; SERVER: 212.88.78.122#53(212.88.78.122)
;; WHEN: Sun Jun 19 17:04:20 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 2137


So... dk. does have an A record (in violation of said 3-digit RFC) and it points to 193.163.102.24...

And that host responds with a redirect:

baikal:owen (15) ~ % telnet 193.163.102.24 80                        2011/06/19 17:04:20
Trying 193.163.102.24...
Connected to www2.dk-hostmaster.dk.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: dk

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:05:38 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 237
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://www.dk-hostmaster.dk/";>here</a>.</p>
</body></html>
Connection closed by foreign host.



On Jun 19, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Adam Atkinson wrote:

> It was a very long time ago, but I seem to recall being shown http://dk, the home page of Denmark, some time in the 
> mid 90s.
>
> Must I be recalling incorrectly?