On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> Furthermore, I have recently become aware that TLDs may not start with a
> digit - I haven't been able to find an RFC that says this, but it is
> stated clearly on the ICANN web site.
RFC 1123 section 2.1
"a valid host name can never have the dotted-decimal form #.#.#.#, since
at least the highest-level component label will be alphabetic."
I think this is mostly a matter of operational policy for the root domain,
so ICANN's statement is authoritative.
Tony.
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