Re: Can bind distinguish between subdomain & country TLD of same name?

SW> The "rule" about not duplicating TLD as subdomains dates from
SW> the days when email systems would swap domain names around I
SW> believe, [...]

JdeBP> Not quite. See RFC 1535 and section 6 of RFC 1536.

SW> Surely that is a slighty different problem [...]

It's pretty much the exact problem that "d" has.

SW> Clearly reusing TLD would make it more of a problem, but the
SW> solution is not to use such a daft search.

I inferred that you already understood that the precept of not duplicating
labels at different levels of the hierarchy was not the proper solution to the
problem, from the fact that you put the word "rule" in quotation marks.