Why are single letter domain names not allowed?
Kelvin Chu
kc at ih.unsw.edu.au
Tue May 17 10:36:12 UTC 2005
I guess the poster might mean single letter domains ending with com, net
or something?
eg:
% whois e.com
IANA Whois Service
Domain: e.com
Name: IANA_RESERVED
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:32:56PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 11:56:58AM -0500,
> Dan J.S. <me at hyperx.com> wrote
> a message of 5 lines which said:
>
> > Anyone know why single letter domain names are not allowed?
>
> They are allowed. Nothing in RFC 1034 prevents them, not even
> "3.5. Preferred name syntax".
>
> BIND has no problem:
>
> May 17 12:31:55 myriam named[1071]: zone x/IN: loaded serial 2004122101
>
> % dig @localhost AXFR x
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @localhost AXFR x
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: printcmd
> x. 86400 IN SOA ...
> ;; Query time: 23 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Tue May 17 12:32:22 2005
> ;; XFR size: 6 records (messages 1)
>
>
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