Re: [cobalt-users] "Bug" in the Cobalt GUI

[Brian Kane <briankane@xxxxxx>]

You'll may end up losing your "art--artist.com" domain. Recently many
people registered domains STARTING WITH A DASH (-a.com, -b.com, etc.) from
one of the "new" registrars that didn't know to block that.

All those domains were later revoked using the legal language defining use
of dash. I think I read that over 500 domains were affected.

Brian
DJ.NET  

>> > I just did successfully register the domain "art--artist.com" for a
client.
>> > Yes, with 2 dashes. After that I wanted to add the virtual site and I
could
>> > not successfully do that because it claimed that art--artist.com is not a
>> > valid domain name...
>> 
>> It also won't allow you to do domains that start with numbers, I've
noticed.
>
>That's cause it's not legal, see rfc 1034....
>
>  domain:  [a-z]<[a-z0-9 or -]>[a-z0-9]

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