A seemingly simple question which sent me down into the murky depths of standards. How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name? It probably isn't sensible to name your online presence a----------hyphen.com - but is there anything technically stopping you? Table of ContentsHistoryTLD RestrictionsAnomaliesSo What? History Let's do some history! This is 1978's "HOST NAMES…
I mean, there’s nothing stopping you, but it’s a bad idea. You can also call your website aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com. Good luck trying to type that out as an end user.
Still, I like that going to the website mentioned by the article, http://a-------------------------------------------------------------a.com/ , gives you a page trying to sell it to you in the most ironic way.
I’m guessing it’s not intentionally silly.
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