Tag Archives: longest domain

August, 2009

• 21 August

  Why there will never be a world record for the longest domain

  In 2002, the owner of thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com, emailed the Guinness Book of World Records to see if it qualified as a world record for the longest domain. Scott Christie at Guinness sent back a polite but firm rejection: After having examined the information you sent, and given full consideration to your …

July, 2009

• 7 July

  The longest single-word domain: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com

  When registering a domain, it is often best to keep the name as short and simple as possible. For the residents of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a village on an island in Wales, this wasn’t an option. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com is Welsh for “The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees …