> 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 near

> 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.