Exactly, and what lazy lug of a windoze admin in 2000 wanted to rebuild NT4 domains to a whole new naming standard that actually complied with the choice to use

Exactly, and what lazy lug of a windoze admin in 2000 wanted to rebuild NT4 domains to a whole new naming standard that actually complied with the choice to use "modern" DNS instead of Netbios? Those admins would have been at Microsoft's door with pitchforks and torches for making work for them, so instead they capitulated and relaxed the standard.