Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-20 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Day Domes wrote: > I have been tasked with coming up with a new name for are transit data > network.  I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does anyone see > any issues with this? Two helpful rules of thumb when picking a domain name: 1. Minimize spoken syl

RE: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-20 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > > I'm assuming we aren't making jokes here, but 3com.com was created in > > 1986: > > I'm confused. 3com.com would not appear to be entirely numerical. Or > maybe someone spiked my coffee this morning. Once leading digits became permitted, the synt

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread bmanning
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 05:24:58PM +, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > > I'm assuming we aren't making jokes here, but 3com.com was created in > > 1986: > > I'm confused. 3com.com would not appear to be entirely numerical. Or maybe > someone spiked my coffee this morning. > > Best Regards, > Nath

RE: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> I'm assuming we aren't making jokes here, but 3com.com was created in > 1986: I'm confused. 3com.com would not appear to be entirely numerical. Or maybe someone spiked my coffee this morning. Best Regards, Nathan Eisenberg

RE: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread Deepak Jain
> On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Roland Perry wrote: > > > In article <20101018024021.gc8...@vacation.karoshi.com.?>, > bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com writes > > > >> the leading character restriction was lifted when the company > >> 3com was created. its been nearly 18 years since that ad

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Roland Perry wrote: > In article <20101018024021.gc8...@vacation.karoshi.com.?>, > bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com writes > >> the leading character restriction was lifted when the company >> 3com was created. its been nearly 18 years since that advice >>

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread Roland Perry
In article <20101018024021.gc8...@vacation.karoshi.com.?>, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com writes the leading character restriction was lifted when the company 3com was created. its been nearly 18 years since that advice held true. And was the first all-numeric name 101.com (

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread Roland Perry
In article <201010190123.o9j1njra013...@mail.r-bonomi.com>, Robert Bonomi writes Not to mention the fact that the company was originally _named_ "Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing", and that '3M' was *just* a logo and trademark. I recall that in the UK, before Nominet deregulated the name space

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:33:13 -0700 > From: Joel Jaeggli > Subject: Re: network name 101100010100110.net > > On 10/17/10 8:24 PM, Joe Hamelin wrote: > > That's why 3M registered mmm.com back in 1988. > > and not just because minnestoaminingandmanufacturing.c

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi@nanog.org Sun Oct 17 22:23:13 > 2010 > Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:24:30 -0700 > Subject: Re: network name 101100010100110.net > From: Joe Hamelin > To: Mark Andrews > Cc: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org > &g

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-18 Thread Claudio Lapidus
Day, > does anyone see any issues with this? Please, I strongly urge you to consider the ergonomics in question. That name is REALLY hard to read, spell, pronounce, type, recognize, etc. Agreed that there are no technical roadblocks, but again, please use common sense and choose something that d

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-18 Thread Barry Shein
On October 17, 2010 at 20:24 j...@nethead.com (Joe Hamelin) wrote: > That's why 3M registered mmm.com back in 1988. When BU joined the internet and promptly brought down about a third of it with their host table entries one of the problems was a host named 3b (.bu.edu, it was an AT&T 3B5) which

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-18 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 09:16:04PM -0500, James Hess wrote: > > > > Which goes back to one of the standard-provided definitions of domain > > name syntax used by RFC 821 page 29: RFC 821 defines the syntax for mail domains, not domain nam

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-18 Thread Joe Hamelin
Joel said: and not just because minnestoaminingandmanufacturing.com is hard to type... Also back then you could only have eight letters in your domain name. But it was free and only took 6-8 weeks to get. -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-17 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 10/17/10 8:24 PM, Joe Hamelin wrote: > That's why 3M registered mmm.com back in 1988. and not just because minnestoaminingandmanufacturing.com is hard to type... they've since officially change the name of the company to 3m... > -- > Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474 > > > > On

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-17 Thread Joe Hamelin
That's why 3M registered mmm.com back in 1988. -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474 On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <20101018024021.gc8...@vacation.karoshi.com.>, > bmann...@vacation.kar > oshi.com writes: >> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 09:16:04PM -

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20101018024021.gc8...@vacation.karoshi.com.>, bmann...@vacation.kar oshi.com writes: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 09:16:04PM -0500, James Hess wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Day Domes wrote: > > > I have been tasked with coming up with a new name for are transit data > > >

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-17 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 17, 2010, at 7:16 PM, James Hess wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Day Domes wrote: >> I have been tasked with coming up with a new name for are transit data >> network. I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does anyone see >> any issues with this? > > The domain-name star

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-17 Thread bmanning
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 09:16:04PM -0500, James Hess wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Day Domes wrote: > > I have been tasked with coming up with a new name for are transit data > > network. I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does anyone see > > any issues with this? > > The do

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-17 Thread James Hess
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Day Domes wrote: > I have been tasked with coming up with a new name for are transit data > network.  I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does anyone see > any issues with this? The domain-name starts with a digit, which is not really recommended, RFC 103

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-16 Thread Joe Hamelin
Matthew said: And imagine answering the phones... Bender's Big Score. Is this for Jewish Hospital (AS 22694)? And many years ago I had jh.org, but domains were $70 back then and my wife thought I had too many... -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 08:07:41AM +0200, Per Carlson wrote: > On 17 Oct 2010 06:47, "Day Domes" wrote: > > I have been tasked with coming up with a new name for are transit data > > network. I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does anyone see > > any issues with this? > > Technically, no.

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-16 Thread Per Carlson
Technically, no. But you probably fancy annoying people. I wouldn't imaging anyone typing that right on the first attempt. On 17 Oct 2010 06:47, "Day Domes" wrote: > I have been tasked with coming up with a new name for are transit data > network. I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-16 Thread Day Domes
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Joe Hamelin wrote: > 16 bit integers.  Ok, a lame joke. > > 22694.NET and 58A6.NET are available.  What are you trying to name? > > > -- > Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474 > > > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Day Domes wrote: >> unsigned? >> >> O

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-16 Thread Joe Hamelin
16 bit integers. Ok, a lame joke. 22694.NET and 58A6.NET are available. What are you trying to name? -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474 On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Day Domes wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Joe Hamelin wrote: >> On Saturday night, Day Domes

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-16 Thread Day Domes
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Joe Hamelin wrote: > On Saturday night, Day Domes postulated: >> I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does anyone see >> any issues with this? > > > It's truly unsigned? > (15 bit) > > -- > Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474 > unsigned?

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-16 Thread Joe Hamelin
On Saturday night, Day Domes postulated: > I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does anyone see > any issues with this? It's truly unsigned? (15 bit) -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474

network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-16 Thread Day Domes
I have been tasked with coming up with a new name for are transit data network.  I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does anyone see any issues with this?