Rename a domain?

Anyone know if it's possible to rename a logical domain without destroying/recreating it?
Even with that method, it seems it's impossible to rename the "primary" domain to any other name.
We'd really like to name the domains with the same name as the host running in them -- even the control and I/O domains. We envision an environment with multiple LDOM host system, so it would be nice to have the name of the control domain reflect which physical piece of hardware things are running on.

No there is currently no other solution than destroy/create the domain to rename it,
and it is not possible to rename the primary domain.

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