On 07/10/11 7:41 PM, Joe Hamelin wrote:
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Jay Ashworth<[email protected]> wrote:
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"3com.com"
I recall that 3M was originally mmm.com because they wouldn't allow a number
to start a domain.
/me runs whois mmm.com
Yep, Created on..............: 1988-10-31.
but wait, 3m.com Created on..............: 1988-05-27.
So was the digit as first octet a limitation with some OS or software (BIND,
sendmail, gopher?) or do I have brain-fade?
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc810.txt
ASSUMPTIONS
1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), and the
minus sign (-) and period (.). No blank or space characters are
permitted as part of a name. No distinction is made between upper
and lower case. The first character must be a letter.
