Problem opening a web page in firefox that has a hyphen "-" character.

[ubuntu at rio.vg]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
> I had a look at the RFC you cite and found this:
> 
> "Note that while upper and lower case letters are allowed in domain
> names, no significance is attached to the case.  That is, two names with
> the same spelling but different case are to be treated as if identical.
> 
> The labels must follow the rules for ARPANET host names.  They must
> start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interior
> characters only letters, digits, and hyphen.  There are also some
> restrictions on the length.  Labels must be 63 characters or less."
> 
> So I wonder if a leading hyphen is allowed? I notice that although "
> nslookup" was able to give the hyves.nl domain in answer to a query using
> the -noorah-.hyves.nl name, the error given by the Dillo browser, which is
> notoriously picky about correct compliance, is "ERROR: Dns can't solve
> -noorah-.hyves.nl "
> 
> Interesting peculiarity :) Google was not particularly helpful on the
> subject of leading hyphens in URLs, but perhaps I used the wrong search
> terms...
> 

"So I wonder if a leading hyphen is allowed?"

"They must start with a letter..."