Longest Domain Name

Longest domain names are chosen by people who need something extraordinary or take it as a challenge to own the longest name in the world. Long domain names are chosen by individuals who are in search of some weird and crazy names that may tempt Internet surfers to automatically click on them. Companies that provide free domains, e-mail accounts, web hosting and other Internet services sometimes go for long domain names. Lengthy domain names are also used for music, film, celebrity, and shopping websites among many such other domains devoted to entertainment.

A good number of sources state that the length of a particular domain name should be restricted to 63 characters; although many other sites say 59 characters, and even 67 characters. However, almost all IANA accredited domain registrars permit either 3 to 46 characters or 2 to 63 characters maximum.

There are many disadvantages in choosing long domain names for your websites. Some web forms such as a long email addresses cannot be read due to the length of domain names. Moreover, such e-mail addresses may be mistaken as invalid or fake addresses by customers. These lengthy domain names cannot be easily remembered by people and consequently these suffer from lack of traffic and resultant loss in page ranking.

The domain llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk is stated as the world's longest valid Internet domain and listed in the 2002 Guinness Book of Records. It is a village website and the domain name represents the name of the village which is situated on the island of Anglesey in Wales. There are 64 characters in it. It is available with the generic top level domains like .net, .org, etc. Although anyone can frame names with more characters than this, this is the only valid domain name known of this length.

Some other examples are abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcd efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com; Iamtheproudownerofthelongestlongest longestdomainnameinthisworld.com; and thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthen someandthensomemoreandmore.com, all of which contain 67 characters. Interestingly, the web site that offers customers the longest list of longest names itself possesses a long domain name Thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com. One of the longest domain names with a numerical name is 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.com, where 3 is a sub domain.