On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
In article <20101018024021.GC8924@vacation.karoshi.com.?>, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com writes
the leading character restriction was lifted when the company 3com was created. its been nearly 18 years since that advice held true.
And was the first all-numeric name 101.com (1995)?
Dalmatians, not binary five.
I always thought it was 2600.com (03-Feb-1994 according to whois).
I'm assuming we aren't making jokes here, but 3com.com was created in 1986: Domain Name: 3COM.COM Registrar: SAFENAMES LTD Whois Server: whois.safenames.net Referral URL: http://www.safenames.net Name Server: DNS2.IDP365.NET Name Server: NS1.3COM.COM Name Server: NS2.3COM.COM Status: ok Updated Date: 05-oct-2010 Creation Date: 11-dec-1986 Expiration Date: 10-dec-2013 If I've missed the joke, sorry. :) Deepak