Given "cat.p.dirtside.com", to argue that "p.dirtside.com" is not a domain of which "cat.p.dirtside.com" is a sub-domain, is to claim, that “cat.p” is a single token. This is no more true than claiming a series of words with spaces can be a single word. It doesn’t matter if I think, want or intend “tooth brush” to be a single word, “tooth brush” is two words with a separator <space> between them. Whereas “toothbrush” is a single word.
Regards,
Brian Dantzig
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> Remember my example cat.p.dirtside.com? P.dirtside.com is a subdomain
> of dirtside.com. It's an administrative grouping of domain names that
> have a particular characteristic. However, p.dirtside.com is NOT a
> domain name. It has no DNS records of its own. Only subsidiaries like
> cat.p.dirtside.com exist and have DNS records.
I would definitely have said “p.dirtside.com" is a subdomain.
I agree that "p.dirtside.com" is a subdomain. Recheck what I said.
It's not a domain name, no more so than "sdkflkdfgfsgdfg". That's the
It gets worse. Is "cat.p.dirtside.com" a subdomain? It's definitely a
domain name. You can know it's a subdomain if you find another domain
name like abc.cat.p.dirtside.com. But if you don't find another name,
how can you as an external observer know that cat.p.dirtside.com is