Found a decent starting reference. It was a Network solutions limit... I *knew* it! LOL http://www.123-domain-register.com/longdomainnames.htm
The domain in question was inspectorgadgetthemovie.com 27 characters long including the .tld. I was off by one, the limit was 22 characters for the A record name and 4 characters for .com, .net, .org, .gov and .edu. >From the 123-domain-register web page: > The word is out... and the experts have been taking advantage of a change > in Domain Name regulations that allows up to 67 characters in domain names. > > How this will impact you: > > - > > Long domain names filled with keywords can get you ranked higher on the > search engines. (yes, the search engines will rank them) > > - > > For those who could not get a DOT.COM domain name, or were limited by > the 22 character limit, those days are over...for awhile anyway. > > - > > This revolution is driven by entrepreneurs who can act quickly. If you > do not act soon, all the good domains will be gone, and you will have to > pay > premiums you do not want to in order get the domain name you want. > > Since 1993, Network Solutions has registered more than 3.4 million domain > names -- all limited to 26 characters. Now that their exclusive government > contract is ending, competitors have tossed this artificial limit and are > allowing longer names. > Cool, I was not dreaming... ;-] --steve On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 15:00, <bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote: > 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 > -- steve pirk refiamerica.org "father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune kexp.org member august '09
