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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Hostnames instead of IP Addresses
by
Gavin Andresen
on 03/06/2010, 14:29:56 UTC
Seems like $ would be inviting confusion, since it's followed by numbers that can look kind-of like a dollar amount:
19vcWM6EEbQHVdN2W8NXv9ySgsPjbZ6gU3$64.20.45.38

means send $64.20 to my bitcoin address ?

Hyphen or underscore would be less confusing, but I think period would work really nicely:

19vcWM6EEbQHVdN2W8NXv9ySgsPjbZ6gU3.64.20.45.38
19vcWM6EEbQHVdN2W8NXv9ySgsPjbZ6gU3.skypaint.com

The advantage of that last one is it is a valid URL;  if a user pasted that into Firefox's URL bar or searched for it in Google the website owner could display a helpful web page explaining how to pay.