Maybe it's not an RFC but an ICANN mandate... I do know I read it
somewhere....
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Support Manager
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> Not meaning to sound ignorant, but I just can't find it.
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> What RFC says that two-letter domains are verboten?
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> 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:
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> >> 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]
> > > >>
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