[145231] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Hamelin)
Fri Sep 30 23:32:17 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAK4no06MKrLrp0p7_x4fu9HFcTQ4gFv+PdUJpEOXjfjC-RyrYA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:32:07 -0700
From: Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
To: "steve pirk [egrep]" <steve@pirk.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 02:54:38PM -0700, steve pirk [egrep] wrote:
> I seem to recollect back the 1999 or 2000 times that I was unable to
> register a domain name that was 24 characters long...
I remember tales from when there was an eight character limit. But that was
back when you didn't have to pay for them and they assigned you a class-c
block automatically. Of course it took six weeks to register because there
was only one person running the registry.
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Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
