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

[spamcatcher <spamcatcher@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought domains can start with numbers. That must be news to 800.com.

>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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