On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Tony Finch wrote:
> 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."
Thanks you. I grepped that RFC for "digit", but didn't find anything :-(
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