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underscore in domain name

John W

New Pleskian
Couple of customers have underscores in their domain names (worked on a different server for the past 15+ years), but Plesk refuses to accept them. Is there a workaround? Thanks.
 
I suppose that this is due to meet the requirements of the document RFC952:

1. A "name" (Net, Host, Gateway, or Domain name) is a text string up
to 24 characters drawn from the alphabet (A-Z), digits (0-9), minus
sign (-), and period (.). Note that periods are only allowed when
they serve to delimit components of "domain style names".
 
Plus all the domain name registrations I went to removes the underscore when I tested, which just goes back to the requirements of RFC952 that IgorG posted. You might want to make sure that sure that they didn't mean dash.

The only time I see an underscore in the domain is when setting up a SRV record (autodiscover_._tcp.domain-name.com) or as a TXT record for a domain key. Is this what you might mean? if so, it would be added as a DNS record and not as a domain.
 
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