On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:29:36PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > All-numeric domains are popular in China because they are easier for > > people to deal with than alphabetic domains. For example, 263.com is > > China's second-largest ISP. You can't just assume that an all-numeric > > domain is necessarily abusive, any more so than Yahoo or Fastmail. > > Is there any meaning to "263" in Chinese?
It's either the average annual wage of a Wal-Mart supplier, or the number of years that Mao predicted it would take the Revolution to destroy the Great Satan[tm]. YMMV. William