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I get this sort of thing constantly because my domain, 3e.org, which I have had for 30 years, is apparently impossible. It's either too short to be real, or sta

by dmd 26d ago

I get this sort of thing constantly because my domain, 3e.org, which I have had for 30 years, is apparently impossible. It's either too short to be real, or starts with a number (obviously impossible). And like the author, 90% of the time I can just disable their front-end validation and go on my merry way.

jofzar 26d ago
My friend has a short last name, and they still have many websites be like "must be longer then 3 letter"
- dprkh 26d ago
  Has your friend tried clearing their cookies?
- eco 26d ago
  I was trying to activate Zelle with my bank and since Zelle is used for scams so often I had to do a bunch of identity verification steps while on the phone with my bank. One of them was to submit a photo of my drivers license. After I did that it OCRed out some details and prepopulated a form with my information. Hitting submit gave me an error saying to use my full middle name, not an initial. My full middle name is a single letter though. The person on the phone with my bank had no idea what to do and just kept asking me try again. I busted out my elite hacker skills though and added a space to the end of the middle name field and was able to steal my own identity.
  - debugnik 25d ago
    > My full middle name is a single letter though. I guess you could follow the Simpsons joke and spell the letter's name. I'm adding this one to my personal list of falsehoods programmers believe about names.
sebmellen 26d ago
Super cool website btw.. cheers!
lstodd 25d ago
ahaha I still remember when 3com forced icann to allow leading numbers and that was some shitstorm
- allarm 25d ago
  Huh? From RFC1123: <quote> 2.1 Host Names and Numbers The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952 [DNS:4]. One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal syntax. </quote> It's from 1989. ICANN was founded in 1998.
  - lstodd 25d ago
    It's all ancient history, but before 3com domains with a leading digit 'just weren't done'. When they forced that through there was a general consternation on what crap internets are becoming.

by dmd 26d ago

jofzar 26d ago

My friend has a short last name, and they still have many websites be like "must be longer then 3 letter"

dprkh 26d ago
Has your friend tried clearing their cookies?
eco 26d ago
I was trying to activate Zelle with my bank and since Zelle is used for scams so often I had to do a bunch of identity verification steps while on the phone with my bank. One of them was to submit a photo of my drivers license. After I did that it OCRed out some details and prepopulated a form with my information. Hitting submit gave me an error saying to use my full middle name, not an initial. My full middle name is a single letter though. The person on the phone with my bank had no idea what to do and just kept asking me try again. I busted out my elite hacker skills though and added a space to the end of the middle name field and was able to steal my own identity.
- debugnik 25d ago
  > My full middle name is a single letter though. I guess you could follow the Simpsons joke and spell the letter's name. I'm adding this one to my personal list of falsehoods programmers believe about names.

sebmellen 26d ago

Super cool website btw.. cheers!

lstodd 25d ago

ahaha I still remember when 3com forced icann to allow leading numbers and that was some shitstorm

allarm 25d ago
Huh? From RFC1123: <quote> 2.1 Host Names and Numbers The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952 [DNS:4]. One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal syntax. </quote> It's from 1989. ICANN was founded in 1998.
- lstodd 25d ago
  It's all ancient history, but before 3com domains with a leading digit 'just weren't done'. When they forced that through there was a general consternation on what crap internets are becoming.