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Re:ICANN bans dotless domains by kijeda on Friday August 16, 2013 @08:00PM (#6227538)
The IAB put out a statement “Dotless Domains Considered Harmful” that explains some of the risks if ICANN changed the rules to allow them. As it stands, they were already prohibited and this resolution reaffirms that.

http://www.iab.org/documents/correspondence-reports-document...

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Re:ICANN bans dotless domains by itafroma on Friday August 16, 2013 @09:31PM (#6227834)
> As it stands, they were already prohibited and this resolution reaffirms that.

Slight nitpick: they were prohibited only without prior ICANN approval (second whereas). Companies like Google attempted to get that approval (Google wanted "search"), which spurred ICANN into making a decision about what circumstances they would allow them. This decision essentially states ICANN won't approve any dotless domains.

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Re:ICANN bans dotless domains by SimHacker on Friday August 16, 2013 @09:01PM (#6227753)
But I thought "* Considered Harmful" was considered harmful?
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