The RFC allows for 67 characters, but the .uk domain names are 64
characters in length (including .co.uk or .org.uk).
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager (ccTLDs)
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Simon Amor wrote:
> Slightly OT.
>
> Reading various RFCs (1034 and 1035), I figure that the maximum length of a
> domain name is 67 characters (including the TLD). However, I register .co.uk
> domains directly with Nominet and they've just rejected one which was 66
> characters including the .co.uk stating:
>
> V012 Fully-qualified domain names must be no longer than 64 characters
>
> Am I correct in saying the max length is 67? Does OpenSRS perform any checks on
> the length of the domain being registered? If so, does it take the above into
> account or does it go by what the RFCs say?
>
> Also, going back a month or so, with the multilingual domain names if each
> non-ASCII character uses 2 normal characters, would that make the restriction 33
> non-ASCII characters long including the TLD?
>
> -- Simon Amor
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