I think the point of the original posting was that there are domains that
break the rules, but they've been around for a long time and the registry no
longer allows such "invalid" names to be newly-registered.
Regards,
Eric Longman
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Csongor Fagyal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dave Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: Valid Domain Names
> I'm doing some serious snippage here :)
>
> IIRC, the original rules, although they may have been relaxed at some
point,
> was that domains had to start with an alpha character.
You sure?
800.com, 123.org - just for examlpe - are all well known (at least by me
:-)), and have been around for a while.
- Csongor
