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Re:Ask HN: SSL is free now, why domain names are not by jklein11 on Thursday January 28, 2016 @10:02PM (#10993212)
arent there an infinite number of domains?
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Re:Ask HN: SSL is free now, why domain names are not by afarrell on Thursday January 28, 2016 @11:07PM (#10993422)
> According to the domain registrars, the longest legal domain name is 63 characters starting with a letter or number.

So no

http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/post/the_worlds_longest_domai...

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Re:Ask HN: SSL is free now, why domain names are not by tuyguntn on Friday January 29, 2016 @04:04AM (#10994265)
event though you can generate more than 36^63 combinations, it doesn't make sense to use 63 character long domain name and even now it is difficult to find & register representative domain name.
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Re:Ask HN: SSL is free now, why domain names are not by jklein11 on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:40AM (#10994868)
It would definitely make bookmarking a more important feature for browsers, but we remember street addresses that are longer than 36 characters, why not longer domain names?
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Re:Ask HN: SSL is free now, why domain names are not by stepanhruda on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:43PM (#10999799)
I sure don't remember those anywhere near the scale of app and domain names
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Re:Ask HN: SSL is free now, why domain names are not by stepanhruda on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:41PM (#10999790)
There is a finite number of words people understand.
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