domain name length

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Jun 30 09:06:18 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:28:34PM -0500,
 Dan Letkeman <danletkeman at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 11 lines which said:

> Are there any issues with have domains like "location.domain.com" 

No.

The limits are in RFC 1034, section 3.1. Each label is 63 characters
maximum and the total length is 255 characters maximum. You can deduce
that names of 127 labels are possible :-)






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