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For the *.cn and *.tw wildcards, someone noted on my blog that they resolve for IDN (non-ASCII) names, which I verified.  Each leads to the respective registry.

Wait till the Native Americans discover that as Nations, they each get a TLD.

I keep wondering why it has taken them so long.

NAN ... the native american nations already are aware, at least some are.  Over a decade ago, (when I had a formal relationship with the IANA) there was some dicussion on how to accomodate requests for non-geopolitical DNS delegations ... (think the US domain and the whole ccTLD thing)

Two groups came to mind, the NAN and religious orders.  Rough outlines of how to accomodate such requests where put together… then the IANA died.

I expect that the ICANN version of IANA may eventually reconsider these types of legitimate requests.

I was surprised to NOT see .cc and .tv listed. Those ccTLDs (and also .bz I think) had wildcards but they must have gone away with the consolidated TLD (ctld) program. As Verisign managed domains one might wonder whether the sitefinder demise had any influence over their abandoned wildcards, but I don't think so.

Another wildcard I found was .hp and guess where it goes. Thats right (www.shopping.hp.com)
when I saw this I went on a search to find out how I could get the TLD .art it took several hours of searching to find out that I'm going to have to do more searching. I can only imagine the extra patrons it would bring to my site daviddory.com . I also have one of the
.ws domains (surreal.ws) I use it for the Omnistic Art Guild. Its money making ability does have merit, but I'm not in the business of selling websites, so I can't say that I've made enough to pay for the hosting. But it was nice to get a name that represented art more than my own name.
With that said I believe there is a need for less generic TLD"s
thanks David Dory

You're confusing browser hacks with TLDs.  There is no .hp domain, nor is there a .art domain. (I'm not guessing, I just FTP'ed a copy of the root zone file to be sure nobody's playing games with it.)

Many browsers try to do you a favor by adding .com to the name you typed if the initial lookup fails. That's almost certainly what you're seeing.

I'm guessing that your right. All I know is that I typed in http://www.hp and their site came up. Wouldn't it be nice if they treated all of us the same way. My wish list someone types in
http://art and david dory art comes up.