Longest URL?

[Hooobi]

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....

 

[deftron]

supercalifragilisticexpialidoceous.com ?




No..I think this is it...named after a village in Wales


llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/

 

[UglyCasanova]

How do you pronounce it?

 

[polypterus]

I thought it was limited to 36 letters or something... guess not.

Ah, it's 67, just looked it up.

dc

 

[tweakmm]

remember those bar code scan things? They would alow you to scan a special dot on a print page and then take to to the web page. I'm pretty sure that on a page that was hyping it, it had some incredibly long URL

 

[Rallispec]

how are you supposed to remember that? its not even a word or words

 

[AdamDuritz99]

<< I thought it was limited to 36 letters or something... guess not.

dc >>



That's what i was taught in Cisco training.. or was it 32 letters?

peace
sean

 

[deftron]

The old limit was 26

The new limit is 63

 

[Linia]

Why is it limited in the first place? Thats stupid. Let people make the domain name as long as they want, what does it matter. Not a good marketing strategy but still, it should be their choice.

 

[deftron]

<< Why is it limited in the first place? Thats stupid. Let people make the domain name as long as they want, what does it matter. Not a good marketing strategy but still, it should be their choice. >>




To restrain space on DNS servers

 

[Linia]

Does it make that much of a difference? I mean I'm sure I dont know the half of how it all works, but come on, letters??? And if it's a space on DNS server issue, why should it be "limited" ,how about they just charge you more if you want a longer name?

 

[ThaGrandCow]

<< remember those bar code scan things? They would alow you to scan a special dot on a print page and then take to to the web page. I'm pretty sure that on a page that was hyping it, it had some incredibly long URL >>


The cuecats? Gawd those were awful.

 

[Maetryx]

http://www.fairbankshelpwanted.com/ might be the longest link I've actually memorized and visited.

 

[Joony]

<<

<< remember those bar code scan things? They would alow you to scan a special dot on a print page and then take to to the web page. I'm pretty sure that on a page that was hyping it, it had some incredibly long URL >>


The cuecats? Gawd those were awful. >>


i made use of the LEDs in those, quality parts...and the PS2 cable

 

[Hooobi]

well, actually I was referring more to a domain name that someone would register & not so much to a link url. it just seems that no one would really want to register a long domain name because most people won't want to type it all in and it will be difficult to remember and prone to typos when people enter it...

i personally thought the cuecat was pretty cool, I used mine to scan in my entire DVD collection

 

[b0mbrman]

<< supercalifragilisticexpialidoceous.com ?




No..I think this is it...named after a village in Wales


llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/ >>


Yep...I remember seeing that in the Guiness book...

 

[OneSyberTroop]

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/[/i] >>




AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

 

[bonk102]

63 letters? why would you need that many??

 

[yakko]

<< llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/ >>


http://www.iwantedthelongestdomainnameintheworldandthisisaprettygoodone.com/

 

[her209]

I wonder if www.microsoftsuxlikeapieceo.com is considered cybersquatting

 

[Mitzi]

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

How do you pronounce it?

My girlfriend is half welsh and can pronounce it fine - she tought me once, it's pronounced like.....

Clan-via-pof-in-waf-dog-gerith-lant-a-synagogue-a-go-go-goth

Just say it very fast in a Welsh accent