- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:40:52 +0200
- To: Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org>
- CC: James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk>, public-test-infra@w3.org
On 11/10/2013 17:15 , Tobie Langel wrote: > On Friday, October 11, 2013 at 5:05 PM, James Graham wrote: >> I don't really know how you would get a certificate for such a hostname >> though. A self-signed cert. isn't good enough since browsers will >> complain about it. I assume no CA will actually sign such a cert. >> (additionally, the name is theoretically resolvable; someone could pay >> for the .test tld. Hopefully that's not a big risk, but it's hard to know). > > Why don't we just purchase a domain name and use it only for that? Yeah, in case I wasn't clear that's one of the options I was thinking of. I only mentioned using a non-existing TLD to provide perhaps stronger guarantee that it won't resolve, but we can easily just own the domain and pledge never to use it. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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