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


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