[BlueOnyx:09494] Re: unable to set numeric sub domain name

[Ralf Quint]

At 05:48 AM 1/31/2012, Michael Stauber wrote:
>According to RFC-952 the first character of a host- or domain-name may not be
>a number, dash or hyphen. It must be a letter.
>
>See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc952
>
>Hence BlueOnyx doesn't allow a naming convention where a host- or domain-name
>starts with a number.
>
>However, in recent years domain name registries have allowed certain RFC
>violating domain names (9gag.com anyone? ;-), so this RFC may have been
>overtaken by events or bad practices somewhere upstream.

3com.com exists per WhoIs since 1986 (though it redirects now to an 
HP site, since they bought 3COM in 2010), so there can't be any 
change in "recent" years on that...

Ralf