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by zeroimpl 2150 days ago
FWIW I had googled whether hostnames may be entirely digits before asking this, and this SO answer suggested yes. Perhaps that doesn’t apply to URLs? But to be clear I meant hostname not a FQDN, because obviously there is no ambiguity once a dot is present.

https://serverfault.com/questions/638260/is-it-valid-for-a-h...