number of characters in a domain?
Doug Barton
dougb at dougbarton.us
Sat Jul 23 19:31:39 UTC 2016
On 07/23/2016 07:07 AM, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> On 23 July 2016 at 14:31, Ryan Finnesey <ryan at finnesey.com> wrote:
>
>> I was hoping someone can help me confirm my research. I am correct that
>> domains are now limited to 67 characters in length including the extension?
>>
>
> 63 octets per label (the bits between the period separators) , 255 octets
> per domain name. In ascii octets and characters are interchangeable, but as
> Stephan noted, it gets slightly more complicated for IDN.
Not really ... the 1035 limits apply to the A-label
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