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Ask HN: Subdomains you don't want your user to have

2 pointsby sandipagrover 14 years ago
For my web app, each user get their subdomains. Are there any list of subdomains that you want to keep for yourself and not have your user to register?<p>Example. blog, mail, www (duh!) ...

2 comments

mooism2over 14 years ago
Anything listed in /etc/services.<p>All 2 letter subdomains (national subdomains), and thus all 1 letter subdomains for consistency.
jcrover 14 years ago
m.example.com --mobile<p>ns?.example.com --name servers<p>ftp.example.com --FTP