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Back in the early days of web hosting I recall that a customer had a domain name that was literally as long as ICANN would allow at the time. It was very nearly
by geocrasher 5y ago
Back in the early days of web hosting I recall that a customer had a domain name that was literally as long as ICANN would allow at the time. It was very nearly a full sentence. I don't recall the limit but this domain
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com
is 57 characters (not including .com) and I think that sounds familiar. One could have a lot of fun with that if they wanted to (and such as was done in this case).
Then there's
http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/ http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogog...
- banana_giraffe 5y agoIt's been years since I've seen or heard an ad for dontbeaweekendparent.com, but I still remember it, even though there's zero chance I'll ever need their services. Sometimes a long domain name can be useful.
- bencoder 5y agoI remember weallgetthingscheaperwhenwebuyinagroup.com Which I think was advertised on TV in the UK when I was a teen
- BenjiWiebe 5y agohowmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com doesthemailruntoday.com Are the two I like.
- piemadd 5y agoi also own the maximum length aaaaaa.com domain, but i had issues with connecting it lol. working on having it redirect to this domain though
- MandieD 5y agoI remember this one: http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/ http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledresse... - sadly, it appears they gave up the site, but Wayback Machine also remembers it.
- geocrasher 5y agoOh my gosh- you will not believe this: THAT IS THE SITE I WAS TALKING ABOUT!
- reaperducer 5y agoSome companies still don't mind long domain names. This one launched very recently: https://www.hardrockcasinonorthernindiana.com https://www.hardrockcasinonorthernindiana.com Nearby, the Chicago Botanic Garden went short: https://ohwow.org https://ohwow.org
- mrkramer 5y agoOriginal name of Facebook's domain was thefacebook.com but they realized it was too long and that "the" was unnecessary so they bought facebook.com I think domain names are like company names or brands you don't want to have long company name or brand name because nobody will remember it.
- AdmiralGinge 5y ago>http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogog http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogog... Welsh place names can be brilliantly literal, Aberystwyth for example is "mouth of the river Ystwyth". Llanfairpwllgwyngyll... means "St Mary's church of the pool of the white hazels over against the pool of St Tysilio Gogo" but the name was completely contrived in the Victorian era to promote tourism to Anglesey.
- js2 5y ago> Back in the early days of web hosting I recall that a customer had a domain name that was literally as long as ICANN would allow at the time. It was very nearly a full sentence. I don't recall the limit RFC 1034 specifies: "Each node has a label, which is zero to 63 octets in length." And: "To simplify implementations, the total number of octets that represent domain name (i.e., the sum of all label octets and label lengths) is limited to 255." https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1034 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1034 If that's been extended, I'm not aware of it.
- walrus01 5y agoI was aware of that place name, and clicked the link hoping to find an audio file or link to youtube video that would give an example of how to pronounce it.