January 23rd: Longest domain name anniversary

On this date in 2000 a certain Welsh village claimed the world record for the longest domain name. Most sites on this subject say that the best anyone can do in terms of domain names is tie for first place because 63 characters is the largest legal domain name allowed. Here are 10 of the longest domain names around:

1. www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/
Website for the Welsh village with the longest name in Britain. It means: Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave. The website includes a tutorial on how to pronounce the name and lists local attractions and places to stay and eat.

2. www.thelongestdomainnameintheworldandthensomeandthensomemoreandmore.com/

Web page claiming to be the one with the longest name; includes a link to an email from Guinness World Records explaining why it is no longer possible to break this record, and a message from God!

3. www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/ 
an e-mail service. Claims that at no cost you can have the world's longest email address, but warns that some email software won't be able to cope with it, and neither will humans having to type it in. Also, people might just think your e-mail address is a joke....

4. http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/

A web site dedicated to listing the longest of everything. If you want to know what is the longest conga line, escalator, moustache, roller coaster, wedding dress train or just about anything else you can think of, this is the place to find out!

5. The owners of the above site found that a URL of 263 characters was possible:

http://www.thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/wearejustdoingthistobestupidnowsincethiscangoonforeverandeverandeverbutitstilllookskindaneatinthebrowsereventhoughitsabigwasteoftimeandenergyandhasnorealpointbutwehadtodoitanyways.html - which is their info page about the longest URL.

6. www.iamtheproudownerofthelongestlongestlongestdomainnameinthisworld.com

A site which exists purely to boast that it is the longest domain name on the Internet.

7. www.thisisthelongesteuropeandomainnameallovertheworldandnowitismine.eu

A website in German with links to two other long ones:

8. 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592.eu/

A German website about pi.

9. http://www.arbeitsgemeinschaft-private-krankenversicherung.info/

A German health insurance firm.

10. http://www.thepersonwithanewideaisacrank-untiltheideasucceeds-by-marktwain.com/

Has a picture of Mark Twain and his quotation written out properly.