Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 09:36:54PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > DNS is case-insensitive when you are talking about 7-bit ASCII
>
> < pedantry >
>
> dns itself is purely eight bit transparent.  one can even have a dot as
> a non-separator.  p.r.c could be a tld.  it's strictly length/value.
>
> of course, everyone and their dog has placed restrictions on it for this
> use or that.
>
> randy

        ah, the good'ol days.   ^g.net as an early attempt for the visually impaired
        lasted for a couple months.   about the same time you received your IPv4 /33


/bill