network name 101100010100110.net

Tue Oct 19 17:21:34 UTC 2010

> On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Roland Perry wrote:
> 
> > In article <20101018024021.GC8924 at vacation.karoshi.com.?>,
> bmanning at 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