I have had a domain 99-red-balloons.com for several years but last month NetSol in all
there incompetence removed it from there database without notifying me that it was
expiring. This is another story and I won't go into details but I have just
re-registered this name successfully so there is no problem registering names using
numbers at the beginning character. (I hope my understanding of this thread is correct)
At 01:50 PM 2/27/01, you wrote:
>the registry no
>longer allows such "invalid" names to be newly-registered.
>
>Regards,
>Eric Longman
>Atl-Connect Internet Services
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Csongor Fagyal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Dave Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 11:30 PM
>Subject: Re: Valid Domain Names
>
>> I'm doing some serious snippage here :)
>>
>> IIRC, the original rules, although they may have been relaxed at some
>point,
>> was that domains had to start with an alpha character.
>
>You sure?
>
>800.com, 123.org - just for examlpe - are all well known (at least by me
>:-)), and have been around for a while.
>
>- Csongor
