How many consecutive hyphens can you have in a domain name?

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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…

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Possibly the most consecutive hyphens belongs to http://a————————————————————-a.com/

Sixty-one hyphens! The maximum possible, and it still works!

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The obvious choice is 8-------------------------------------------------------------D.com

Unfortunately D will become d in a browser URL field.

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It’d need to be equal signs too, not just hyphens or dashes. Girth is love, girth is life.

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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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Good luck trying to type that out as an end user.

Most URLs these days are too long and complex to type. And there’s always CV.

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