> > ... enabling Internet Domain Name Registrations of up to 63
> > characters! This is 37 characters more than Network Solutions who
> > can only
> > currently register domain names up to 22 characters.
I must say that this is a bit of oddness - A "Domain Name" is composed
of a sequence of "labels" separated by dots. The total length may not
exceed 255 bytes and each label may range from 1 to 63 characters in
length.
In other words, DNS has had 63 byte names ever since the beginning.
Perhaps some implementations were broken, and there were indeed some
administrative limitations.
But 63 is nothing new.
--karl--
