Ralf Quint wrote: > At 05:48 AM 1/31/2012, Michael Stauber wrote: >> According to RFC-952 the first character of a host- or domain-name may not be >> a number, dash or hyphen. It must be a letter. >> >> See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc952 >> >> Hence BlueOnyx doesn't allow a naming convention where a host- or domain-name >> starts with a number. >> >> However, in recent years domain name registries have allowed certain RFC >> violating domain names (9gag.com anyone? ;-), so this RFC may have been >> overtaken by events or bad practices somewhere upstream. > > 3com.com exists per WhoIs since 1986 (though it redirects now to an > HP site, since they bought 3COM in 2010), so there can't be any > change in "recent" years on that...
Indeed. There is always an exception for every rule. Still, I tend to side with following the RFC wherever possible. -- Chris Gebhardt VIRTBIZ Internet Services Access, Web Hosting, Colocation, Dedicated www.virtbiz.com | toll-free (866) 4 VIRTBIZ _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
