NSI was never the only registrar. They were just the only registrar for COM, ORG, NET, EDU, and possibly a few other TLDs, but, they were, for example, never the registrar for US or many other CCTLDs.
Therefore, it was not internet wide, though I will admit that it did cover most of the widely known gTLDs. Owen On Oct 7, 2011, at 4:45 PM, steve pirk [egrep] wrote: > It turns out it was an artificial limitation on Network Solution's part. > Being the only registrar at the time, it was pretty much internet wide at > that point, contrary to the RFC spec. > > What was so funny was that someone got Internic/Network Solutions to up the > limit. Apparently just to save some money on reprinting movie posters... ok, > so they would have had to change some trailers... > ;-] > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 16:39, Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Joe Hamelin <j...@nethead.com> wrote: >>> I remember tales from when there was an eight character limit. But that >> was >>> back when you didn't have to pay for them and they assigned you a class-c >>> block automatically. Of course it took six weeks to register because >> there >>> was only one person running the registry. >> >> You may be referring to a limitation of a certain OS regarding a >> hostname; or some network's policy. >> But the DNS protocol itself never had a limit of 8 characters. >> When we are talking about the contents of "A" record names, >> >> I would refer you to >> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2181.txt >> "RFC 2181 >> Clarifications to the DNS Specification R. Elz, R. Bush >> [ July 1997 ] (TXT = 36989) (Updates RFC1034, RFC1035, RFC1123) >> (Updated-By RFC4035, RFC2535, RFC4343, RFC4033, RFC4034, RFC5452) >> (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD) (Stream: IETF, Area: int, WG: dnsind) " >> >> " >> Elz & Bush Standards Track [Page 12] >> ... >> Occasionally it is assumed that the Domain Name System serves only >> the purpose of mapping Internet host names to data, and mapping >> Internet addresses to host names. This is not correct, the DNS is a >> general (if somewhat limited) hierarchical database, and can store >> almost any kind of data, for almost any purpose. >> ... >> 11. Name syntax >> " >> The length of any one label is limited to between 1 and 63 octets. A >> full domain >> name is limited to 255 octets (including the separators). The zero >> length full name is defined as representing the root of the DNS tree, >> and is typically written and displayed as ".". Those restrictions >> aside, any binary string whatever can be used as the label of any >> resource record. >> " >> >> -- >> -JH >> > > > > -- > steve pirk > refiamerica.org > "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune > kexp.org member august '09
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