Why can't I have spaces in my Windows 2000 NetBIOS domain name?
In Windows NT 4.0-based domains, the space is a legal character in NetBIOS
domain names. Windows 2000 domains are DNS based and therefore use DNS names
(although a NetBIOS name is available for backward compatibility). DNS doesn’t
allow spaces in names. For consistency, Microsoft removed the space as a legal
character in Win2K NetBIOS domain names.
Win2K NetBIOS domain names can contain the following special characters:
! @ # $ % ^ & ( ) - _ ' { } . ~
The following characters aren’t allowed:
\ * + = | : ; " ? < > ,
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