On 8 November 1999, Mark Henderson-Thynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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......
The 63-character limit is inherent in the DNS packet structure, and is
a limit per label.
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Mark C. Langston
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems Admin
San Jose, CA
