On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 02:54:38PM -0700, steve pirk [egrep] wrote: > I seem to recollect back the 1999 or 2000 times that I was unable to > register a domain name that was 24 characters long. Shortly after that, I > heard that the character limit had been increased to like 128 characters, > and we were able to register the name. > > Can anyone offer some input, or is this a memory of a bad dream? > ;-] > > -- Steve Pirk > Yensid
the foundational DNS spec sez: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt 2.3.1 [elided] There are also some restrictions on the length. Labels must be 63 characters or less. /bill
