2006/11/19

The longest domain name I have seen

I had a bottle of Heineken beer today. There was a label sticked to the bottle with the words "please visit enjoyheinekenresponsibly.com". Woo, a total of 27 characters. This is the longest domain name I have seen in commercial products. Will consumers spend time to hit 30 keystrokes just to visit a web site ?

A question arises. What is the maximum number of characters in a domain name ? According to IETF standard (forget which one), the maximum length is 63 characters. Here is a domain with 63 characters which I guess is used for playing only :

Iamtheproudownerofthelongestlongestlongestdomainnameinthisworld.com

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