What is the status of "dotted" hostnames - i.e. a period in the hostname portion of a domain name ?
At one point they were allowed, I believe ? What is the latest official RFC ? Thanks... Vyto ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Margolin <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, January 30, 2011 3:34 pm Subject: Re: what's a valid domain name? To: [email protected] > In article <[email protected]>, > Chris Buxton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Correct, the requirement to start with a letter was removed ages ago. > > Witness 3com.com, which may have been the first. > > Yes, I'm pretty sure they were the impetus for the change, paving the > > way for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM years later. > > -- > Barry Margolin, [email protected] > Arlington, MA > *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
