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Re:I made a down detector for down detector by rft on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @09:00AM (#45979581)
Had to check, but that is actually beyond what DNS allows. Labels (the part between dots) are limited to 63 characters. We could sneakily drop an s somewhere in there and then it would fit.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1035

Also I think I triggered a nice error log in domaintools just now. https://whois.domaintools.com/downdetectorsdowndetectorsdown...

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Re:I made a down detector for down detector by cortesoft on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @12:32PM (#45982272)
Have to use more efficient notation - downdetectorsx5.com
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Re:I made a down detector for down detector by chuckadams on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @01:05PM (#45982705)
fix.downdetectors.com
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