I think the point in 1912 was to avoid "names" that look like IP addresses and something ending in ".com" probably would not create a syntactic problem.
Vint At 01:43 PM 11/20/2001 -0600, Eric A. Hall wrote: >"Eric A. Hall" wrote: > >> Minimum 2 alphanumeric characters, maximum 63 alphanumeric chars, first >> char alphanumeric, last char alphanumeric. Maximum 255 for FQDN. FQDN >> must contain at least one alpha. > >Also note that RFC 1912 (Common DNS Errors) stated that �labels may not be >all numbers� and even cites 411.org. and 1776.com. as domain names that >break this rule. However, RFC 1912 is classified as informational, and >there is no support for this tighter naming restriction in any >standards-track documents. This is the source of some confusion. > >-- >Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ >Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
