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The Domain Name System (DNS) provides an essential service on the
Internet, mapping structured names to a variety of data, usually IP
addresses. These names appear
in email addresses, URIs, and other application layer identifiers that
are often rendered to human users. Because of this, there has been a
strong demand to acquire names that have significance to people,
through equivalence to registered trademarks, company names, types of
services, and so on. A danger of this trend is that the humans and
automata which consume and use these identifiers will make assumptions
about the services that are or should be provided by the hosts
associated with these identifiers. This document discusses this
problem in more detail and makes recommendations on how it can be
avoided.
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