McPhilly — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:38:47 +0000

Hi Keith, thanks for that

Anyway :

Domain Names have a variety of basic rules:

- Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
- Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
- .com, .net and .org domain names cannot exceed 67 characters total
- Other domain names cannot exceed 22 characters, not including the extension
- Domain names are not case sensitive
- Domain names cannot include spaces

I was wrong, but close on the other domains though.

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Before anyone says it, I know 63 + .com,.net or .org = 67
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mairving — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:13:08 +0000

Internet Explorer has a maximum uniform resource locator (URL) length of 2,083 characters, with a maximum path length of 2,048 characters. This limit applies to both POST and GET request URLs.

detox — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:13:32 +0000

I think it was in an ASP book of mine saying something about 2000, but they made sure that the reader knew this was not the smartest of things to do...

KeithMcL — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:11:40 +0000

Actually a top level domain name can be up to 63 characters now, but as far as a URL is concerned, i'm not sure.

McPhilly — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:29:36 +0000

A top level domain can only be something like 26 charactes long. But after that, my guess it could go on forever.

a_gajic — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 01:10:18 +0000

ARGH!

I read the answer to this question about a month back.

I *think* its different for different browsers.

I'm not sure how long but its pretty long I think that it goes into the 1000's.

I can't find that damn post lol