In message <[email protected]>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo
=E3o_Damas?= writes:
> casually looking through what seems to be a list of the oldest .com registrat
> ion still around, I came across 3com.com, registered, according to whois on 1
> 1-dec-1986. Been a while :)
> Thing is I had this vague impression that domain names weren't allowed to beg
> in with a number until later than that. Upon checking, RFC 952, published in
> October 1985 had the starting-number restriction and it wasn't until RFC 1123
> (Oct 1989) that this got relaxed. Anyone around remember how 3com.com got re
> gistered ahead of it seemingly being a valid domain name (and again, this is
> in itself a bit confusing as RFC 952 introduces the restriction for hostnames
> and domain names, and RFC 1123 only seems to lift the restriction for hostna
> mes)
The need to support 3com lead to the change which was codified in
RFC 1123.
> Anyway just curious
>
> Joao
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