Until such time as the RFC is changed to allow single letter domain names,
the client will likely stay as is :)
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Support Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> I think his issue is that the software shouldn't reject them as a
> special case, but rather it should reject them as taken.
>
> i.e., if at 2 a.m. this morning, in a surprise announcement ICANN
> gave up the single-letter domains and released them to the pool, the
> software shouldn't reject them out of hand simply because the
> software "knows" they're taken.
>
> D
> (who would like to see X, the paypal folks, file a UDRP against ICANN
> for not surrendering x.com, since they're not holding it in good
> faith, and are cybersquatting on it)
>
>
>
> At 11:51 AM -0400 9/27/00, Charles Daminato wrote:
> >Single letter domain names are reserved by ICANN so you cannot attempt to
> >register them (even though some are actually taken).
> >
> >Charles Daminato
> >OpenSRS Support Manager
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jeremy Bettis wrote:
> >
> >> When I attempt a registration of a.com I get this error:
> >>
> >> Invalid domain syntax for a.com (Invalid domain format (try
> >>something similar to "yourname.com")
> >>
> >> Shouldn't I get the error: "Domain already reserved"? I know that
> >>these are all taken, but they are legal domain names, for instance
> >>x.com is a real site.
> >> --
> >> Jeremy Bettis -- Hickman-Kenyon Systems, Inc.
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
>
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