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> As i wrote: the TLDs are not supposed to contain A or CNAME entries at
> all.  So if you're looking up an A entry, you don't need to query it
> in the root domain if it doesn't contain at least one dot.

Where do you see any prohibition of TLDs containing A records? Note that
there *are* already TLDs containing A records in existence today (the
first one I found was AI, Anguilla).

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no