[BlueOnyx:09497] Re: unable to set numeric sub domain name

[Ralf Quint]

At 07:40 AM 1/31/2012, Gerald Waugh wrote:
>Ralf Quint wrote:
> > 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...
> >
>
>3com.com is not a 'host' name, its a domain name ;)

Please see the quoted part of Michael's post. He clearly refers to 
"domain" names!

Ralf