----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Hamelin" <joe@nethead.com>
Subject: Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters? On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote: ----- Original Message -----
"3com.com"
I recall that 3M was originally mmm.com because they wouldn't allow a number to start a domain.
/me runs whois mmm.com
Yep, Created on..............: 1988-10-31.
but wait, 3m.com Created on..............: 1988-05-27.
So was the digit as first octet a limitation with some OS or software (BIND, sendmail, gopher?) or do I have brain-fade?
I would have bet good green Murrican Money that RFC 1034/5 required that it not start with a number, but I'll have to go look. No, I seem to remember pretty clearly it was administrative. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274