Have you read the rest of the documents?   E.g.,:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2181#section-11

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:21 PM, Adrien de Croy <adr...@qbik.com> wrote:

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> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Ted Lemon" <mel...@fugue.com>
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> <domain> ::= <subdomain> | " "
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>> <subdomain> ::= <label> | <subdomain> "." <label>
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>> <label> ::= <letter> [ [ <ldh-str> ] <let-dig> ]
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>> <ldh-str> ::= <let-dig-hyp> | <let-dig-hyp> <ldh-str>
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>> <let-dig-hyp> ::= <let-dig> | "-"
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>> <let-dig> ::= <letter> | <digit>
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>> <letter> ::= any one of the 52 alphabetic characters A through Z in
>> upper case and a through z in lower case
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>> <digit> ::= any one of the ten digits 0 through 9
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>> if this was a BNF production only for hostnames, why call it <domain>,
> <label> etc.
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> There's no other BNF for domain name in the spec.
>
> Adrien
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