[BlueOnyx:09500] Re: unable to set numeric sub domain name

[Gerald Waugh]

Ralf Quint wrote:
> 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 

Excuse me
-- 
Gerald