On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Day Domes <daydomes@gmail.com> wrote:
I have been tasked with coming up with a new name for are transit data network. I am thinking of using 101100010100110.net does anyone see any issues with this?
The domain-name starts with a digit, which is not really recommended, RFC 1034, due to the fact a valid actual hostname cannot start with a digit, and, for example, some MTAs/MUAs, that comply with earlier versions of standards still in use, will possibly have a problem sending e-mail to the flat domain, even if the actual hostname is something legal such as mail.101100010100110.net. Which goes back to one of the standard-provided definitions of domain name syntax used by RFC 821 page 29: <domain> ::= <element> | <element> "." <domain> <element> ::= <name> | "#" <number> | "[" <dotnum> "]" <mailbox> ::= <local-part> "@" <domain> ... <name> ::= <a> <ldh-str> <let-dig> ... <a> ::= any one of the 52 alphabetic characters A through Z in upper case and a through z in lower case <d> ::= any one of the ten digits 0 through 9 -- -Jh