Not meaning to sound ignorant, but I just can't find it.
What RFC says that two-letter domains are verboten?
D
At 2:14 PM -0400 9/27/00, Charles Daminato wrote:
>Until such time as the RFC is changed to allow single letter domain names,
>the client will likely stay as is :)
>
>Charles Daminato
>OpenSRS Support Manager
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
>
>> I think his issue is that the software shouldn't reject them as a
>> special case, but rather it should reject them as taken.
>>
>> i.e., if at 2 a.m. this morning, in a surprise announcement ICANN
>> gave up the single-letter domains and released them to the pool, the
>> software shouldn't reject them out of hand simply because the
>> software "knows" they're taken.
>>
>> D
>> (who would like to see X, the paypal folks, file a UDRP against ICANN
>> for not surrendering x.com, since they're not holding it in good
>> faith, and are cybersquatting on it)
>>
>>
>>
>> At 11:51 AM -0400 9/27/00, Charles Daminato wrote:
>> >Single letter domain names are reserved by ICANN so you cannot attempt to
>> >register them (even though some are actually taken).
>> >
>> >Charles Daminato
>> >OpenSRS Support Manager
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jeremy Bettis wrote:
>> >
>> >> When I attempt a registration of a.com I get this error:
>> >>
>> >> Invalid domain syntax for a.com (Invalid domain format (try
>> >>something similar to "yourname.com")
>> >>
>> >> Shouldn't I get the error: "Domain already reserved"? I know that
>> >>these are all taken, but they are legal domain names, for instance
>> >>x.com is a real site.
> > >> --
> > >> Jeremy Bettis -- Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Inc.
> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>
> >
> >
