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What stops anyone from squatting all the domain names possible?

• jklein11 11y ago
  arent there an infinite number of domains?
  • afarrell 11y ago
    > According to the domain registrars, the longest legal domain name is 63 characters starting with a letter or number. So no http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/post/the_worlds_longest_domain_name.html http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/post/the_worlds_longest_domai...
  • tuyguntn 11y ago
    event though you can generate more than 36^63 combinations, it doesn't make sense to use 63 character long domain name and even now it is difficult to find & register representative domain name.
    • jklein11 11y ago
      It would definitely make bookmarking a more important feature for browsers, but we remember street addresses that are longer than 36 characters, why not longer domain names?
      • stepanhruda 11y ago
        I sure don't remember those anywhere near the scale of app and domain names
  • stepanhruda 11y ago
    There is a finite number of words people understand.