network name 101100010100110.net

Wed Oct 20 14:22:45 UTC 2010

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:

> > I'm assuming we aren't making jokes here, but 3com.com was created in
> > 1986:
>
> I'm confused.  3com.com would not appear to be entirely numerical.  Or
> maybe someone spiked my coffee this morning.

Once leading digits became permitted, the syntax was relaxed to allow
all-numeric labels. See RFC 1123.

Tony.
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