- Jan 26, 2001
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I was just wondering what the longest URL might be. I'm not talking about the whole address, just the part right before the final dot (.), for instance, here it would be "anandtech"
The reason I ask, not just because I'm procrastinating, is because I just read this case about how someone had registered peta.org and ran a site called "people eating tasty animals" or something like that. After a trial, the url was taken away from him despite his having raised a defense that his site was a parody of the real PETA and thus should be protected as free speech (fair use defense). The court said that since the url was identical to PETA's name, it couldn't be a parody. So that got me thinking... if that's the legal requirement for an online parody site, people like him would have to have urls such as this:
http://www.peopleeatingtastyanimals.com
now who the hell is going to actually register a domain name that long?
So anyway, that got me wondering if people did actually register domain names that long....
The reason I ask, not just because I'm procrastinating, is because I just read this case about how someone had registered peta.org and ran a site called "people eating tasty animals" or something like that. After a trial, the url was taken away from him despite his having raised a defense that his site was a parody of the real PETA and thus should be protected as free speech (fair use defense). The court said that since the url was identical to PETA's name, it couldn't be a parody. So that got me thinking... if that's the legal requirement for an online parody site, people like him would have to have urls such as this:
http://www.peopleeatingtastyanimals.com
now who the hell is going to actually register a domain name that long?
So anyway, that got me wondering if people did actually register domain names that long....