Re: Please help a DNS dummie!

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:58:19 -0500

In news:OUxS8Mi8EHA.2900@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl,
Herb Martin <news@LearnQuick.com> made a post then I commented below
::: Thanks for the correction. For some reason, it was banging my head
::: saying not to use a numeric as the first character. Now that I
::: remember, spammers do it all the time with their oddball domain
::: names.
::
:: Which are you referring to...some domain like 2china.cn
:: (I made that one up)..
::
:: RFC 1035 clearly says, no leading digits.
:: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1035.html
::
:: But I might be missing something later....
::
:: Underscores were (at least traditionally not allowed
:: in DNS but fine in NetBIOS which caused a lot of
:: people a pile of trouble when all those LANs were
:: added to the Internet around 1996-2000.
::
:: Dashes are legal in DNS names and with Unicode
:: updated RFCs it is not telling what they let in there.
::
:: For me, all of the above it academic (literally) as
:: I do my best to them to 14 characters Max, leading
:: Alpha, with alphanumerics only in positions 2-14.
::
::
:: --
:: Herb Martin

I thought they weren't allowed. I assumed you meant 2china.com, specifically
looking at the '2' as the leading character.

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