[ot] dns registration

[M. Oesterwinter]

There are no words that are not allowed, however, there are a large number
of words that network solutions has deemed inappropriate and registered
themselves....

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Mike wrote:

> <off topic message>
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> I'm trying to find out what words are not allowed in DNS names by most
> registrars.  In the past I've done business with register.com.  When I
> asked them which words I can't use, they told me to go see iana and
> ripe.net (?) but a cursory search hasn't given me any insight as to what
> the naming guidelines are.  Anybody know where I can find good information
> about this?  Thanks.
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