[145426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Were A record domain names ever limited to 23 characters?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Hamelin)
Fri Oct 7 22:43:21 2011
In-Reply-To: <23307697.4362.1318041052104.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 19:41:34 -0700
From: Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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?
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Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
