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Computer Name Restrictions

Computer names must contain the following ASCII characters only:

Computer names must not start with a hyphen.

Important! To support localized hostnames, that means, hostnames in non-US English (non-ENU) language locales, it is required that the underlying Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure supports UTF-8 character encoding in DNS.