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Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 22:43:29 -0400 (EDT)
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From: "Joe Hamelin" <joe () nethead com>
Subject: Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters? On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote: ----- Original Message -----"3com.com"I recall that 3M was originally mmm.com because they wouldn't allow a number to start a domain. /me runs whois mmm.com Yep, Created on..............: 1988-10-31. but wait, 3m.com Created on..............: 1988-05-27. So was the digit as first octet a limitation with some OS or software (BIND, sendmail, gopher?) or do I have brain-fade?
I would have bet good green Murrican Money that RFC 1034/5 required that it not start with a number, but I'll have to go look. No, I seem to remember pretty clearly it was administrative. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
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- Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters? Jay Ashworth (Oct 07)
- Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters? Owen DeLong (Oct 07)
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