> Notwithstanding the commercial applications for the new extended 63
> character domain name, spare a thought for the welsh village that
> previously could not register their own village domain name. However, there
> is good news, they now claim possibly the longest .com name in history!
>
> llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com
The person who wrote this obviously didn't do their homework. The Welsh
village has been registered as:
http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/
since July 1997 (which coincidentally is two characters longer than the .com
version ;-)
Mark......